Re: [PATCH] traing: Fix memory leak of iter->temp when reading trace_pipe

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 22:14:35 +0800
Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com> wrote:

> kmemleak reports:
>   unreferenced object 0xffff88814d14e200 (size 256):
>     comm "cat", pid 336, jiffies 4294871818 (age 779.490s)
>     hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>       04 00 01 03 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>       0c d8 c8 9b ff ff ff ff 04 5a ca 9b ff ff ff ff  .........Z......
>     backtrace:
>       [<ffffffff9bdff18f>] __kmalloc+0x4f/0x140
>       [<ffffffff9bc9238b>] trace_find_next_entry+0xbb/0x1d0
>       [<ffffffff9bc9caef>] trace_print_lat_context+0xaf/0x4e0
>       [<ffffffff9bc94490>] print_trace_line+0x3e0/0x950
>       [<ffffffff9bc95499>] tracing_read_pipe+0x2d9/0x5a0
>       [<ffffffff9bf03a43>] vfs_read+0x143/0x520
>       [<ffffffff9bf04c2d>] ksys_read+0xbd/0x160
>       [<ffffffff9d0f0edf>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
>       [<ffffffff9d2000aa>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
> 
> when reading file 'trace_pipe', 'iter->temp' is allocated or relocated
> in trace_find_next_entry() but not freed before 'trace_pipe' is closed.
> 
> To fix it, free 'iter->temp' in tracing_release_pipe().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>

Why is it that every time I send a pull request to Linus, I get another fix???

Anyway, Linus, hold off. I'll send a v3 with this included as well.

-- Steve

> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index 4529e264cb86..94cfaa884578 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -6764,6 +6764,7 @@ static int tracing_release_pipe(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  
>  	free_cpumask_var(iter->started);
>  	kfree(iter->fmt);
> +	kfree(iter->temp);
>  	mutex_destroy(&iter->mutex);
>  	kfree(iter);
>