This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tracing/probes: check the return value of kstrndup() for pbuf to the 5.15-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: tracing-probes-check-the-return-value-of-kstrndup-fo.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 64c4015f91558604095df1e75eefd70bcf37cc6b Author: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Dec 14 10:26:46 2021 +0800 tracing/probes: check the return value of kstrndup() for pbuf [ Upstream commit 1c1857d400355e96f0fe8b32adc6fa7594d03b52 ] kstrndup() is a memory allocation-related function, it returns NULL when some internal memory errors happen. It is better to check the return value of it so to catch the memory error in time. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/tencent_4D6E270731456EB88712ED7F13883C334906@xxxxxx Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: a42e3c4de964 ("tracing/probe: Add immediate string parameter support") Signed-off-by: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c index 3ed2a3f372972..bb4605b60de79 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c @@ -356,6 +356,8 @@ static int __parse_imm_string(char *str, char **pbuf, int offs) return -EINVAL; } *pbuf = kstrndup(str, len - 1, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!*pbuf) + return -ENOMEM; return 0; }