Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix error handling in event_trigger_parse

[Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:27:37 +0800
Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com> wrote:

> According to event_trigger_alloc() doc, event_trigger_free() should be
> used to free an event_trigger_data object. This fixes a mismatch introduced
> when kzalloc was replaced with event_trigger_alloc without updating
> the corresponding deallocation calls.
> 

Hmm, it seems more complicated problems are there. e.g. in `remove = true`
case, since the trigger_data is not initialized (no event_trigger_init()),
the `trigger_data->ref` is 0. Thus, ;

static void
event_trigger_free(struct event_trigger_data *data)
{
	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(data->ref <= 0))
		return;

	data->ref--;
	if (!data->ref)
		trigger_data_free(data);
}

this will never call `trigger_data_free(data)`. 

But latter part(after out_free) seems correct.

Tom, could you check it?

Thank you,

> Fixes: e1f187d09e11 ("tracing: Have existing event_command.parse() implementations use helpers")
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
> index d45448947094..8389314b8c2d 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
> @@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ event_trigger_parse(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
>  
>  	if (remove) {
>  		event_trigger_unregister(cmd_ops, file, glob+1, trigger_data);
> -		kfree(trigger_data);
> +		event_trigger_free(trigger_data);
>  		ret = 0;
>  		goto out;
>  	}
> @@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ event_trigger_parse(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
>  
>   out_free:
>  	event_trigger_reset_filter(cmd_ops, trigger_data);
> -	kfree(trigger_data);
> +	event_trigger_free(trigger_data);
>  	goto out;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
> 
> 


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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>