This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ftrace: Fix memory leak caused by not freeing entry in unregister_ftrace_direct() to the 5.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ftrace-fix-memory-leak-caused-by-not-freeing-entry-i.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 36f55e36165ebf7927295e82e2215e77717ac3ff Author: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Apr 22 21:38:45 2020 -0400 ftrace: Fix memory leak caused by not freeing entry in unregister_ftrace_direct() [ Upstream commit 353da87921a5ec654e7e9024e083f099f1b33c97 ] kmemleak reported the following: unreferenced object 0xffff90d47127a920 (size 32): comm "modprobe", pid 1766, jiffies 4294792031 (age 162.568s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 01 00 00 00 00 ad de ........"....... 00 78 12 a7 ff ff ff ff 00 00 b6 c0 ff ff ff ff .x.............. backtrace: [<00000000bb79e72e>] register_ftrace_direct+0xcb/0x3a0 [<00000000295e4f79>] do_one_initcall+0x72/0x340 [<00000000873ead18>] do_init_module+0x5a/0x220 [<00000000974d9de5>] load_module+0x2235/0x2550 [<0000000059c3d6ce>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xc0/0x120 [<000000005a8611b4>] do_syscall_64+0x60/0x230 [<00000000a0cdc49e>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xb3 The entry used to save the direct descriptor needs to be freed when unregistering. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index fd81c7de77a70..63089c70adbb6 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -5155,6 +5155,7 @@ int unregister_ftrace_direct(unsigned long ip, unsigned long addr) list_del_rcu(&direct->next); synchronize_rcu_tasks(); kfree(direct); + kfree(entry); ftrace_direct_func_count--; } }