On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 7:38 PM Haowen Bai <baihaowen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> link could be null but still dereference bpf_link__destroy(&link->link)
> and it will lead to a null pointer access.
>
> Signed-off-by: Haowen Bai <baihaowen@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/lib/bpf/usdt.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/usdt.c b/tools/lib/bpf/usdt.c
> index 1bce2eab5e89..b02ebc4ba57c 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/usdt.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/usdt.c
> @@ -996,7 +996,7 @@ struct bpf_link *usdt_manager_attach_usdt(struct usdt_manager *man, const struct
> link = calloc(1, sizeof(*link));
> if (!link) {
> err = -ENOMEM;
> - goto err_out;
> + goto link_err;
this is not a complete fix because there are two more similar goto
err_out; above which you didn't fix. I think better fix is to just add
if (link) check before bpf_link__destroy(), which is what I did
locally when applying.
> }
>
> link->usdt_man = man;
> @@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ struct bpf_link *usdt_manager_attach_usdt(struct usdt_manager *man, const struct
>
> err_out:
> bpf_link__destroy(&link->link);
> -
> +link_err:
> free(targets);
> hashmap__free(specs_hash);
> if (elf)
> --
> 2.7.4
>
