tracing/histograms: Fix memory leak problem
stable inclusion from stable-v5.10.132 commit 78a1400c42ee11197eb1f0f85ba51df9a4fdfff0 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I5YS3T Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=78a1400c42ee11197eb1f0f85ba51df9a4fdfff0 -------------------------------- commit 7edc3945 upstream. This reverts commit 46bbe5c6. As commit 46bbe5c6 ("tracing: fix double free") said, the "double free" problem reported by clang static analyzer is: > In parse_var_defs() if there is a problem allocating > var_defs.expr, the earlier var_defs.name is freed. > This free is duplicated by free_var_defs() which frees > the rest of the list. However, if there is a problem allocating N-th var_defs.expr: + in parse_var_defs(), the freed 'earlier var_defs.name' is actually the N-th var_defs.name; + then in free_var_defs(), the names from 0th to (N-1)-th are freed; IF ALLOCATING PROBLEM HAPPENED HERE!!! -+ \ | 0th 1th (N-1)-th N-th V +-------------+-------------+-----+-------------+----------- var_defs: | name | expr | name | expr | ... | name | expr | name | /// +-------------+-------------+-----+-------------+----------- These two frees don't act on same name, so there was no "double free" problem before. Conversely, after that commit, we get a "memory leak" problem because the above "N-th var_defs.name" is not freed. If enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK and inject a fault at where the N-th var_defs.expr allocated, then execute on shell like: $ echo 'hist:key=call_site:val=$v1,$v2:v1=bytes_req,v2=bytes_alloc' > \ /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger Then kmemleak reports: unreferenced object 0xffff8fb100ef3518 (size 8): comm "bash", pid 196, jiffies 4295681690 (age 28.538s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 76 31 00 00 b1 8f ff ff v1...... backtrace: [<0000000038fe4895>] kstrdup+0x2d/0x60 [<00000000c99c049a>] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x206f/0x20e0 [<00000000ae70d2cc>] trigger_process_regex+0xc0/0x110 [<0000000066737a4c>] event_trigger_write+0x75/0xd0 [<000000007341e40c>] vfs_write+0xbb/0x2a0 [<0000000087fde4c2>] ksys_write+0x59/0xd0 [<00000000581e9cdf>] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80 [<00000000cf3b065c>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220711014731.69520-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 46bbe5c6 ("tracing: fix double free") Reported-by: NHulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com> Suggested-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: NTom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NZheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: NZheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com> Acked-by: NXie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
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