From: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>,
Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>,
Ivan Pravdin <ipravdin.official@gmail.com>,
Crystal Wood <crwood@redhat.com>, John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com>,
Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list:Real-time Linux
Analysis (RTLA) tools), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list),
bpf@vger.kernel.org (open list:BPF
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Subject: [rtla 01/13] rtla: Check for memory allocation failures
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:41:08 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251117184409.42831-2-wander@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251117184409.42831-1-wander@redhat.com>
The actions_init() and actions_new() functions did not check the
return value of calloc() and realloc() respectively. In a low
memory situation, this could lead to a NULL pointer dereference.
Add checks for the return value of memory allocation functions
and return an error in case of failure. Update the callers to
handle the error properly.
Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
---
tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.h | 2 +-
tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_hist.c | 7 +++++--
tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c | 7 +++++--
4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c
index 8945aee58d511..01648a1425c10 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c
@@ -11,11 +11,13 @@
/*
* actions_init - initialize struct actions
*/
-void
+int
actions_init(struct actions *self)
{
self->size = action_default_size;
self->list = calloc(self->size, sizeof(struct action));
+ if (!self->list)
+ return -1;
self->len = 0;
self->continue_flag = false;
@@ -23,6 +25,7 @@ actions_init(struct actions *self)
/* This has to be set by the user */
self->trace_output_inst = NULL;
+ return 0;
}
/*
@@ -50,8 +53,13 @@ static struct action *
actions_new(struct actions *self)
{
if (self->len >= self->size) {
- self->size *= 2;
- self->list = realloc(self->list, self->size * sizeof(struct action));
+ const size_t new_size = self->size * 2;
+ void *p = reallocarray(self->list, new_size, sizeof(struct action));
+
+ if (!p)
+ return NULL;
+ self->list = p;
+ self->size = new_size;
}
return &self->list[self->len++];
@@ -65,6 +73,9 @@ actions_add_trace_output(struct actions *self, const char *trace_output)
{
struct action *action = actions_new(self);
+ if (!action)
+ return -1;
+
self->present[ACTION_TRACE_OUTPUT] = true;
action->type = ACTION_TRACE_OUTPUT;
action->trace_output = calloc(strlen(trace_output) + 1, sizeof(char));
@@ -83,6 +94,9 @@ actions_add_signal(struct actions *self, int signal, int pid)
{
struct action *action = actions_new(self);
+ if (!action)
+ return -1;
+
self->present[ACTION_SIGNAL] = true;
action->type = ACTION_SIGNAL;
action->signal = signal;
@@ -99,6 +113,9 @@ actions_add_shell(struct actions *self, const char *command)
{
struct action *action = actions_new(self);
+ if (!action)
+ return -1;
+
self->present[ACTION_SHELL] = true;
action->type = ACTION_SHELL;
action->command = calloc(strlen(command) + 1, sizeof(char));
@@ -117,6 +134,9 @@ actions_add_continue(struct actions *self)
{
struct action *action = actions_new(self);
+ if (!action)
+ return -1;
+
self->present[ACTION_CONTINUE] = true;
action->type = ACTION_CONTINUE;
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.h b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.h
index a4f9b570775b5..439bcc58ac93a 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.h
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ struct actions {
struct tracefs_instance *trace_output_inst;
};
-void actions_init(struct actions *self);
+int actions_init(struct actions *self);
void actions_destroy(struct actions *self);
int actions_add_trace_output(struct actions *self, const char *trace_output);
int actions_add_signal(struct actions *self, int signal, int pid);
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_hist.c b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_hist.c
index 606c1688057b2..09a3da3f58630 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_hist.c
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_hist.c
@@ -798,8 +798,11 @@ static struct common_params
if (!params)
exit(1);
- actions_init(¶ms->common.threshold_actions);
- actions_init(¶ms->common.end_actions);
+ if (actions_init(¶ms->common.threshold_actions) ||
+ actions_init(¶ms->common.end_actions)) {
+ err_msg("Error initializing actions");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
/* disabled by default */
params->dma_latency = -1;
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c
index fc479a0dcb597..7679820e72db5 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c
@@ -556,8 +556,11 @@ static struct common_params
if (!params)
exit(1);
- actions_init(¶ms->common.threshold_actions);
- actions_init(¶ms->common.end_actions);
+ if (actions_init(¶ms->common.threshold_actions) ||
+ actions_init(¶ms->common.end_actions)) {
+ err_msg("Error initializing actions");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
/* disabled by default */
params->dma_latency = -1;
--
2.51.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-17 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-17 18:41 [PATCH 0/13] rtla: Code robustness and maintainability improvements Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-17 18:41 ` Wander Lairson Costa [this message]
2025-11-18 2:09 ` [rtla 01/13] rtla: Check for memory allocation failures Masami Hiramatsu
2025-11-18 3:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-11-18 5:13 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2025-11-28 13:29 ` Costa Shulyupin
2025-11-28 13:52 ` Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-17 18:41 ` [rtla 02/13] rtla: Use strdup() to simplify code Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-17 18:41 ` [rtla 03/13] rtla: Introduce for_each_action() helper Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-17 18:41 ` [rtla 04/13] rtla: Replace atoi() with a robust strtoi() Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-25 0:46 ` Crystal Wood
2025-11-25 13:34 ` Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-25 8:35 ` Costa Shulyupin
2025-11-25 13:49 ` Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-17 18:41 ` [rtla 05/13] rtla: Simplify argument parsing Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-25 0:46 ` Crystal Wood
2025-11-25 13:45 ` Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-25 16:53 ` Crystal Wood
2025-11-17 18:41 ` [rtla 06/13] rtla: Use strncmp_static() in more places Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-17 18:41 ` [rtla 07/13] rtla: Introduce timerlat_restart() helper Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-25 0:46 ` Crystal Wood
2025-11-25 14:20 ` Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-25 17:35 ` Crystal Wood
2025-11-25 18:09 ` Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-17 18:41 ` [rtla 08/13] rtla: Use standard exit codes for result enum Wander Lairson Costa
[not found] ` <CADDUTFz_gU0C8uqwDS3ewFRUxk7nbkGv1UU09Omjy0Ew2wB5VQ@mail.gmail.com>
2025-11-28 14:04 ` Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-17 18:41 ` [rtla 09/13] rtla: Exit if trace output action fails Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-17 18:41 ` [rtla 10/13] rtla: Remove redundant memset after calloc Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-17 18:41 ` [rtla 11/13] rtla: Replace magic number with MAX_PATH Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-17 18:41 ` [rtla 12/13] rtla: Remove unused headers Wander Lairson Costa
2025-11-17 18:41 ` [rtla 13/13] rtla: Fix inconsistent state in actions_add_* functions Wander Lairson Costa
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