From: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Fix subbuf_ids memory leak in rb_allocate_cpu_buffer() error path
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:01:51 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <178539491147.180138.1181424244288838594.stgit@devnote2> (raw)
From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
In rb_allocate_cpu_buffer(), cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids is allocated using
kcalloc() when buffer->remote is non-NULL. If a subsequent page allocation
fails (e.g., ring_buffer_desc_page() returns NULL or rb_allocate_pages()
fails), execution jumps to fail_free_reader.
While __free(kfree) automatically frees the outer cpu_buffer structure
at scope exit, kfree(cpu_buffer) does not recursively free nested heap
pointers such as cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids, resulting in a memory leak.
Fix this by explicitly freeing cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids in the
fail_free_reader error unwinding path when cpu_buffer->remote is set.
Fixes: 2e67fabd8b77 ("ring-buffer: Introduce ring-buffer remotes")
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.6-flash
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
---
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 78d3875a47a5..03f6baf6a5f5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -2599,6 +2599,8 @@ rb_allocate_cpu_buffer(struct trace_buffer *buffer, long nr_pages, int cpu)
return_ptr(cpu_buffer);
fail_free_reader:
+ if (cpu_buffer->remote)
+ kfree(cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids);
free_buffer_page(cpu_buffer->reader_page);
return NULL;
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2026-07-30 8:13 ` [PATCH] ring-buffer: Fix subbuf_ids memory leak in rb_allocate_cpu_buffer() error path Vincent Donnefort
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