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* [PATCH v2] tracing: fix memory leak in tracing_read_pipe
@ 2022-11-07 11:04 Wang Yufen
  2022-11-07 11:45 ` wangyufen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Wang Yufen @ 2022-11-07 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: rostedt, mhiramat, Wang Yufen

kmemleak reports this issue:

unreferenced object 0xffff888105a18900 (size 128):
  comm "test_progs", pid 18933, jiffies 4336275356 (age 22801.766s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    25 73 00 90 81 88 ff ff 26 05 00 00 42 01 58 04  %s......&...B.X.
    03 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<00000000560143a1>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4a/0x140
    [<000000006af00822>] krealloc+0x8d/0xf0
    [<00000000c309be6a>] trace_iter_expand_format+0x99/0x150
    [<000000005a53bdb6>] trace_check_vprintf+0x1e0/0x11d0
    [<0000000065629d9d>] trace_event_printf+0xb6/0xf0
    [<000000009a690dc7>] trace_raw_output_bpf_trace_printk+0x89/0xc0
    [<00000000d22db172>] print_trace_line+0x73c/0x1480
    [<00000000cdba76ba>] tracing_read_pipe+0x45c/0x9f0
    [<0000000015b58459>] vfs_read+0x17b/0x7c0
    [<000000004aeee8ed>] ksys_read+0xed/0x1c0
    [<0000000063d3d898>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
    [<00000000a06dda7f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

iter->fmt alloced in
  tracing_read_pipe() -> .. ->trace_iter_expand_format(), but not
freed, to fix, add free in tracing_release_pipe()

Signed-off-by: Wang Yufen <wangyufen@huawei.com>
---
v1 -> v2: del if (iter->fmt), free iter->fmt directly
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 47a44b0..f9d98e7 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -6657,6 +6657,7 @@ static int tracing_release_pipe(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
 
 	free_cpumask_var(iter->started);
+	kfree(iter->fmt);
 	mutex_destroy(&iter->mutex);
 	kfree(iter);
 
-- 
1.8.3.1


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