This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tracing: Fix memory leak in tracing_read_pipe()
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-fix-memory-leak-in-tracing_read_pipe.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 649e72070cbbb8600eb823833e4748f5a0815116 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wang Yufen <wangyufen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 19:04:50 +0800
Subject: tracing: Fix memory leak in tracing_read_pipe()
From: Wang Yufen <wangyufen@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 649e72070cbbb8600eb823833e4748f5a0815116 upstream.
kmemleak reports this issue:
unreferenced object 0xffff888105a18900 (size 128):
comm "test_progs", pid 18933, jiffies 4336275356 (age 22801.766s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
25 73 00 90 81 88 ff ff 26 05 00 00 42 01 58 04 %s......&...B.X.
03 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<00000000560143a1>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4a/0x140
[<000000006af00822>] krealloc+0x8d/0xf0
[<00000000c309be6a>] trace_iter_expand_format+0x99/0x150
[<000000005a53bdb6>] trace_check_vprintf+0x1e0/0x11d0
[<0000000065629d9d>] trace_event_printf+0xb6/0xf0
[<000000009a690dc7>] trace_raw_output_bpf_trace_printk+0x89/0xc0
[<00000000d22db172>] print_trace_line+0x73c/0x1480
[<00000000cdba76ba>] tracing_read_pipe+0x45c/0x9f0
[<0000000015b58459>] vfs_read+0x17b/0x7c0
[<000000004aeee8ed>] ksys_read+0xed/0x1c0
[<0000000063d3d898>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[<00000000a06dda7f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
iter->fmt alloced in
tracing_read_pipe() -> .. ->trace_iter_expand_format(), but not
freed, to fix, add free in tracing_release_pipe()
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1667819090-4643-1-git-send-email-wangyufen@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: efbbdaa22bb7 ("tracing: Show real address for trace event arguments")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wang Yufen <wangyufen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -6630,6 +6630,7 @@ static int tracing_release_pipe(struct i
mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
free_cpumask_var(iter->started);
+ kfree(iter->fmt);
mutex_destroy(&iter->mutex);
kfree(iter);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wangyufen@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.15/bpf-fix-memory-leaks-in-__check_func_call.patch
queue-5.15/tracing-fix-memory-leak-in-tracing_read_pipe.patch
