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tracing/remotes: Fix leak in trace_remote_alloc_buffer() error path
authorVincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Thu, 9 Jul 2026 16:00:15 +0000 (17:00 +0100)
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:04:26 +0000 (14:04 -0400)
If page allocation fails in trace_remote_alloc_buffer(), desc->nr_cpus
is not yet incremented for the current CPU. As a consequence, on error,
half-allocated rb_desc will not be freed in trace_remote_free_buffer().

Increment desc->nr_cpus as soon as the first allocation for the current
CPU has succeeded.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260709160017.1729517-2-vdonnefort@google.com
Fixes: 96e43537af54 ("tracing: Introduce trace remotes")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel/trace/trace_remote.c

index 2a6cc000ec98dcaefea2db1a37f9b7d71d45d175..d48042239d5891ccc802abd7e6a13a72a74dc865 100644 (file)
@@ -1006,6 +1006,8 @@ int trace_remote_alloc_buffer(struct trace_buffer_desc *desc, size_t desc_size,
                if (!rb_desc->meta_va)
                        goto err;
 
+               desc->nr_cpus++;
+
                for (id = 0; id < nr_pages; id++) {
                        rb_desc->page_va[id] = (unsigned long)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
                        if (!rb_desc->page_va[id])
@@ -1013,7 +1015,6 @@ int trace_remote_alloc_buffer(struct trace_buffer_desc *desc, size_t desc_size,
 
                        rb_desc->nr_page_va++;
                }
-               desc->nr_cpus++;
                desc->struct_len += offsetof(struct ring_buffer_desc, page_va);
                desc->struct_len += struct_size(rb_desc, page_va, rb_desc->nr_page_va);
                rb_desc = __next_ring_buffer_desc(rb_desc);