This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tracing/histograms: Fix memory leak problem 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-histograms-fix-memory-leak-problem.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. >From 7edc3945bdce9c39198a10d6129377a5c53559c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:47:31 +0800 Subject: tracing/histograms: Fix memory leak problem From: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7edc3945bdce9c39198a10d6129377a5c53559c2 upstream. This reverts commit 46bbe5c671e06f070428b9be142cc4ee5cedebac. As commit 46bbe5c671e0 ("tracing: fix double free") said, the "double free" problem reported by clang static analyzer is: > In parse_var_defs() if there is a problem allocating > var_defs.expr, the earlier var_defs.name is freed. > This free is duplicated by free_var_defs() which frees > the rest of the list. However, if there is a problem allocating N-th var_defs.expr: + in parse_var_defs(), the freed 'earlier var_defs.name' is actually the N-th var_defs.name; + then in free_var_defs(), the names from 0th to (N-1)-th are freed; IF ALLOCATING PROBLEM HAPPENED HERE!!! -+ \ | 0th 1th (N-1)-th N-th V +-------------+-------------+-----+-------------+----------- var_defs: | name | expr | name | expr | ... | name | expr | name | /// +-------------+-------------+-----+-------------+----------- These two frees don't act on same name, so there was no "double free" problem before. Conversely, after that commit, we get a "memory leak" problem because the above "N-th var_defs.name" is not freed. If enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK and inject a fault at where the N-th var_defs.expr allocated, then execute on shell like: $ echo 'hist:key=call_site:val=$v1,$v2:v1=bytes_req,v2=bytes_alloc' > \ /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger Then kmemleak reports: unreferenced object 0xffff8fb100ef3518 (size 8): comm "bash", pid 196, jiffies 4295681690 (age 28.538s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 76 31 00 00 b1 8f ff ff v1...... backtrace: [<0000000038fe4895>] kstrdup+0x2d/0x60 [<00000000c99c049a>] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x206f/0x20e0 [<00000000ae70d2cc>] trigger_process_regex+0xc0/0x110 [<0000000066737a4c>] event_trigger_write+0x75/0xd0 [<000000007341e40c>] vfs_write+0xbb/0x2a0 [<0000000087fde4c2>] ksys_write+0x59/0xd0 [<00000000581e9cdf>] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80 [<00000000cf3b065c>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220711014731.69520-1-zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 46bbe5c671e0 ("tracing: fix double free") Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c @@ -4056,6 +4056,8 @@ static int parse_var_defs(struct hist_tr s = kstrdup(field_str, GFP_KERNEL); if (!s) { + kfree(hist_data->attrs->var_defs.name[n_vars]); + hist_data->attrs->var_defs.name[n_vars] = NULL; ret = -ENOMEM; goto free; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/tracing-histograms-fix-memory-leak-problem.patch