From b2e08ad9d4cb0d2c6776ff0a73903084ddc7588b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 21:17:30 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Fix memory leak in set_trigger_filter() commit 3cec638b3d793b7cacdec5b8072364b41caeb0e1 upstream. When create_event_filter() fails in set_trigger_filter(), the filter may still be allocated and needs to be freed. The caller expects the data->filter to be updated with the new filter, even if the new filter failed (we could add an error message by setting set_str parameter of create_event_filter(), but that's another update). But because the error would just exit, filter was left hanging and nothing could free it. Found by kmemleak detector. Cc: Fixes: bac5fb97a173a ("tracing: Add and use generic set_trigger_filter() implementation") Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c index 43254c5e7e16..e2da180ca172 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c @@ -744,8 +744,10 @@ int set_trigger_filter(char *filter_str, /* The filter is for the 'trigger' event, not the triggered event */ ret = create_event_filter(file->event_call, filter_str, false, &filter); - if (ret) - goto out; + /* + * If create_event_filter() fails, filter still needs to be freed. + * Which the calling code will do with data->filter. + */ assign: tmp = rcu_access_pointer(data->filter); -- GitLab