[PATCH 3.18 12/22] tracing: Fix freeing of filter in create_filter() when set_str is false

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-28T08:23:49Z

From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

commit 8b0db1a5bdfcee0dbfa89607672598ae203c9045 upstream.

Performing the following task with kmemleak enabled:

# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/irq/irq_handler_entry/
# echo 'enable_event:kmem:kmalloc:3 if irq >' > trigger
# echo 'enable_event:kmem:kmalloc:3 if irq > 31' > trigger
# echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
unreferenced object 0xffff8800b9290308 (size 32):
comm "bash", pid 1114, jiffies 4294848451 (age 141.139s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff81cef5aa>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
[<ffffffff81357938>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x158/0x290
[<ffffffff81261c09>] create_filter_start.constprop.28+0x99/0x940
[<ffffffff812639c9>] create_filter+0xa9/0x160
[<ffffffff81263bdc>] create_event_filter+0xc/0x10
[<ffffffff812655e5>] set_trigger_filter+0xe5/0x210
[<ffffffff812660c4>] event_enable_trigger_func+0x324/0x490
[<ffffffff812652e2>] event_trigger_write+0x1a2/0x260
[<ffffffff8138cf87>] __vfs_write+0xd7/0x380
[<ffffffff8138f421>] vfs_write+0x101/0x260
[<ffffffff8139187b>] SyS_write+0xab/0x130
[<ffffffff81cfd501>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

The function create_filter() is passed a 'filterp' pointer that gets
allocated, and if "set_str" is true, it is up to the caller to free it, even
on error. The problem is that the pointer is not freed by create_filter()
when set_str is false. This is a bug, and it is not up to the caller to free
the filter on error if it doesn't care about the string.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502705898-27571-2-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com

Fixes: 38b78eb85 ("tracing: Factorize filter creation")
Reported-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -1909,6 +1909,10 @@ static int create_filter(struct ftrace_e
if (err && set_str)
append_filter_err(ps, filter);
}
+ if (err && !set_str) {
+ free_event_filter(filter);
+ filter = NULL;
+ }
create_filter_finish(ps);

*filterp = filter;