From: Vincent Donnefort Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 16:00:15 +0000 (+0100) Subject: tracing/remotes: Fix leak in trace_remote_alloc_buffer() error path X-Git-Tag: v7.2-rc3~9^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ec082d0b978b5fb4c11205ccce63587ac94c74e1;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git tracing/remotes: Fix leak in trace_remote_alloc_buffer() error path 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 Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_remote.c b/kernel/trace/trace_remote.c index 2a6cc000ec98..d48042239d58 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_remote.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_remote.c @@ -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);