From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB15C4741F for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2020 16:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E00D20936 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2020 16:25:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731224AbgKEQZs (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2020 11:25:48 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:45194 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726729AbgKEQZs (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2020 11:25:48 -0500 Received: from gandalf.local.home (cpe-66-24-58-225.stny.res.rr.com [66.24.58.225]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CDAB121734; Thu, 5 Nov 2020 16:25:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rostedt by gandalf.local.home with local (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1kai54-007PeB-DG; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:25:46 -0500 Message-ID: <20201105162546.266768313@goodmis.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:25:01 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Dan Carpenter Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 3/4] tracing: Make -ENOMEM the default error for parse_synth_field() References: <20201105162458.408429167@goodmis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" parse_synth_field() returns a pointer and requires that errors get surrounded by ERR_PTR(). The ret variable is initialized to zero, but should never be used as zero, and if it is, it could cause a false return code and produce a NULL pointer dereference. It makes no sense to set ret to zero. Set ret to -ENOMEM (the most common error case), and have any other errors set it to something else. This removes the need to initialize ret on *every* error branch. Fixes: 761a8c58db6b ("tracing, synthetic events: Replace buggy strcat() with seq_buf operations") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 17 +++++++---------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c index 84b7cab55291..881df991742a 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c @@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ static struct synth_field *parse_synth_field(int argc, const char **argv, { struct synth_field *field; const char *prefix = NULL, *field_type = argv[0], *field_name, *array; - int len, ret = 0; + int len, ret = -ENOMEM; struct seq_buf s; ssize_t size; @@ -617,10 +617,9 @@ static struct synth_field *parse_synth_field(int argc, const char **argv, len--; field->name = kmemdup_nul(field_name, len, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!field->name) { - ret = -ENOMEM; + if (!field->name) goto free; - } + if (!is_good_name(field->name)) { synth_err(SYNTH_ERR_BAD_NAME, errpos(field_name)); ret = -EINVAL; @@ -638,10 +637,9 @@ static struct synth_field *parse_synth_field(int argc, const char **argv, len += strlen(prefix); field->type = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!field->type) { - ret = -ENOMEM; + if (!field->type) goto free; - } + seq_buf_init(&s, field->type, len); if (prefix) seq_buf_puts(&s, prefix); @@ -653,6 +651,7 @@ static struct synth_field *parse_synth_field(int argc, const char **argv, } if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!seq_buf_buffer_left(&s))) goto free; + s.buffer[s.len] = '\0'; size = synth_field_size(field->type); @@ -666,10 +665,8 @@ static struct synth_field *parse_synth_field(int argc, const char **argv, len = sizeof("__data_loc ") + strlen(field->type) + 1; type = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!type) { - ret = -ENOMEM; + if (!type) goto free; - } seq_buf_init(&s, type, len); seq_buf_puts(&s, "__data_loc "); -- 2.28.0