From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" Subject: [PATCH 4.9 13/61] tracing: Fix memory leak of instance function hash filters Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:18:13 +0100 Message-Id: <20181220085844.262902712@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20181220085843.743900603@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20181220085843.743900603@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) commit 2840f84f74035e5a535959d5f17269c69fa6edc5 upstream. The following commands will cause a memory leak: # cd /sys/kernel/tracing # mkdir instances/foo # echo schedule > instance/foo/set_ftrace_filter # rmdir instances/foo The reason is that the hashes that hold the filters to set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace are not freed if they contain any data on the instance and the instance is removed. Found by kmemleak detector. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 591dffdade9f ("ftrace: Allow for function tracing instance to filter functions") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -4836,6 +4836,7 @@ void ftrace_destroy_filter_files(struct if (ops->flags & FTRACE_OPS_FL_ENABLED) ftrace_shutdown(ops, 0); ops->flags |= FTRACE_OPS_FL_DELETED; + ftrace_free_filter(ops); mutex_unlock(&ftrace_lock); }