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tracing: Fix leaks of filter preds
authorSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tue, 14 May 2013 19:40:48 +0000 (15:40 -0400)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 30 May 2013 13:35:00 +0000 (14:35 +0100)
commit 60705c89460fdc7227f2d153b68b3f34814738a4 upstream.

Special preds are created when folding a series of preds that
can be done in serial. These are allocated in an ops field of
the pred structure. But they were never freed, causing memory
leaks.

This was discovered using the kmemleak checker:

unreferenced object 0xffff8800797fd5e0 (size 32):
  comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294690605 (age 104.608s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 01 00 03 00 05 00 07 00 09 00 0b 00 0d 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff814b52af>] kmemleak_alloc+0x73/0x98
    [<ffffffff8111ff84>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive.constprop.42+0x16/0x18
    [<ffffffff81120e68>] __kmalloc+0xd7/0x125
    [<ffffffff810d47eb>] kcalloc.constprop.24+0x2d/0x2f
    [<ffffffff810d4896>] fold_pred_tree_cb+0xa9/0xf4
    [<ffffffff810d3781>] walk_pred_tree+0x47/0xcc
    [<ffffffff810d5030>] replace_preds.isra.20+0x6f8/0x72f
    [<ffffffff810d50b5>] create_filter+0x4e/0x8b
    [<ffffffff81b1c30d>] ftrace_test_event_filter+0x5a/0x155
    [<ffffffff8100028d>] do_one_initcall+0xa0/0x137
    [<ffffffff81afbedf>] kernel_init_freeable+0x14d/0x1dc
    [<ffffffff814b24b7>] kernel_init+0xe/0xdb
    [<ffffffff814d539c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c

index 95dc31efd6dd503dbd169a159dac4c5048f5a568..b0996c1afe294ae3db4f52f673f9220bf876edd8 100644 (file)
@@ -769,7 +769,11 @@ static int filter_set_pred(struct event_filter *filter,
 
 static void __free_preds(struct event_filter *filter)
 {
+       int i;
+
        if (filter->preds) {
+               for (i = 0; i < filter->n_preds; i++)
+                       kfree(filter->preds[i].ops);
                kfree(filter->preds);
                filter->preds = NULL;
        }