From: Adrian Huang Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 03:15:28 +0000 (+0800) Subject: tracing: Fix memory leak when reading set_event file X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2fa6a01345b538faa7b0fae8f723bb6977312428;p=users%2Fwilly%2Fpagecache.git tracing: Fix memory leak when reading set_event file kmemleak reports the following memory leak after reading set_event file: # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/set_event # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak unreferenced object 0xff110001234449e0 (size 16): comm "cat", pid 13645, jiffies 4294981880 hex dump (first 16 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a8 71 e7 84 ff ff ff ff .........q...... backtrace (crc c43abbc): __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x3ca/0x4b0 s_start+0x72/0x2d0 seq_read_iter+0x265/0x1080 seq_read+0x2c9/0x420 vfs_read+0x166/0xc30 ksys_read+0xf4/0x1d0 do_syscall_64+0x79/0x150 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e The issue can be reproduced regardless of whether set_event is empty or not. Here is an example about the valid content of set_event. # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/set_event sched:sched_process_fork sched:sched_switch sched:sched_wakeup *:*:mod:trace_events_sample The root cause is that s_next() returns NULL when nothing is found. This results in s_stop() attempting to free a NULL pointer because its parameter is NULL. Fix the issue by freeing the memory appropriately when s_next() fails to find anything. Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250220031528.7373-1-ahuang12@lenovo.com Fixes: b355247df104 ("tracing: Cache ":mod:" events for modules not loaded yet") Signed-off-by: Adrian Huang Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) --- diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c index 4cb275316e51e..513de9ceb80ef 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c @@ -1591,6 +1591,13 @@ s_next(struct seq_file *m, void *v, loff_t *pos) return iter; #endif + /* + * The iter is allocated in s_start() and passed via the 'v' + * parameter. To stop the iterator, NULL must be returned. But + * the return value is what the 'v' parameter in s_stop() receives + * and frees. Free iter here as it will no longer be used. + */ + kfree(iter); return NULL; } @@ -1667,9 +1674,9 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) } #endif -static void s_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *p) +static void s_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *v) { - kfree(p); + kfree(v); t_stop(m, NULL); }