There are two bugs in this code. First, if the kzalloc() fails it leads to a NULL dereference of "ep" on the next line. Second, if the alloc_event_probe() function retursn an error then it leads to an error pointer dereference in the caller. Fixes: 7491e2c44278 ("tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c index 56a96e9750cf..3044b762cbd7 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ static struct trace_eprobe *alloc_event_probe(const char *group, ep = kzalloc(struct_size(ep, tp.args, nargs), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ep) { - trace_event_put_ref(ep->event); + trace_event_put_ref(event); goto error; } ep->event = event; @@ -851,7 +851,8 @@ static int __trace_eprobe_create(int argc, const char *argv[]) ret = PTR_ERR(ep); /* This must return -ENOMEM, else there is a bug */ WARN_ON_ONCE(ret != -ENOMEM); - goto error; /* We know ep is not allocated */ + ep = NULL; + goto error; } argc -= 2; argv += 2; -- 2.20.1