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Vamshi K Sthambamkadirostedt
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tracing: Fix memory leak in eprobe_register()
kmemleak report: unreferenced object 0xffff900a70ec7ec0 (size 32): comm "ftracetest", pid 2770, jiffies 4295042510 (age 311.464s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): c8 31 23 45 0a 90 ff ff 40 85 c7 6e 0a 90 ff ff .1#[email protected].... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<000000009d3751fd>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2a2/0x440 [<0000000088b8124b>] eprobe_register+0x1e3/0x350 [<000000002a9a0517>] __ftrace_event_enable_disable+0x7c/0x240 [<0000000019109321>] event_enable_write+0x93/0xe0 [<000000007d85b320>] vfs_write+0xb9/0x260 [<00000000b94c5e41>] ksys_write+0x67/0xe0 [<000000005a08c81d>] __x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20 [<00000000240bf576>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0 [<0000000043d5d9f6>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae unreferenced object 0xffff900a56bbf280 (size 128): comm "ftracetest", pid 2770, jiffies 4295042510 (age 311.464s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 ................ 80 69 3b b2 ff ff ff ff 20 69 3b b2 ff ff ff ff .i;..... i;..... backtrace: [<000000009d3751fd>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2a2/0x440 [<00000000c4e90fad>] eprobe_register+0x1fc/0x350 [<000000002a9a0517>] __ftrace_event_enable_disable+0x7c/0x240 [<0000000019109321>] event_enable_write+0x93/0xe0 [<000000007d85b320>] vfs_write+0xb9/0x260 [<00000000b94c5e41>] ksys_write+0x67/0xe0 [<000000005a08c81d>] __x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20 [<00000000240bf576>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0 [<0000000043d5d9f6>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae In new_eprobe_trigger(), allocated edata and trigger variables are never freed. To fix, free memory in disable_eprobe(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211008071802.GA2098@cosmos Fixes: 7491e2c ("tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events") Signed-off-by: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
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kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c

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@@ -632,6 +632,13 @@ static int disable_eprobe(struct trace_eprobe *ep,
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trace_event_trigger_enable_disable(file, 0);
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update_cond_flag(file);
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/* Make sure nothing is using the edata or trigger */
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tracepoint_synchronize_unregister();
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kfree(edata);
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kfree(trigger);
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return 0;
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