This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tracing: Fix memory leak of iter->temp when reading trace_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-of-iter-temp-when-reading-trace_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 d5a821896360cc8b93a15bd888fabc858c038dc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 22:14:35 +0800
Subject: tracing: Fix memory leak of iter->temp when reading trace_pipe
From: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit d5a821896360cc8b93a15bd888fabc858c038dc0 upstream.
kmemleak reports:
unreferenced object 0xffff88814d14e200 (size 256):
comm "cat", pid 336, jiffies 4294871818 (age 779.490s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
04 00 01 03 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0c d8 c8 9b ff ff ff ff 04 5a ca 9b ff ff ff ff .........Z......
backtrace:
[<ffffffff9bdff18f>] __kmalloc+0x4f/0x140
[<ffffffff9bc9238b>] trace_find_next_entry+0xbb/0x1d0
[<ffffffff9bc9caef>] trace_print_lat_context+0xaf/0x4e0
[<ffffffff9bc94490>] print_trace_line+0x3e0/0x950
[<ffffffff9bc95499>] tracing_read_pipe+0x2d9/0x5a0
[<ffffffff9bf03a43>] vfs_read+0x143/0x520
[<ffffffff9bf04c2d>] ksys_read+0xbd/0x160
[<ffffffff9d0f0edf>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
[<ffffffff9d2000aa>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
when reading file 'trace_pipe', 'iter->temp' is allocated or relocated
in trace_find_next_entry() but not freed before 'trace_pipe' is closed.
To fix it, free 'iter->temp' in tracing_release_pipe().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230713141435.1133021-1-zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: ff895103a84ab ("tracing: Save off entry when peeking at next entry")
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.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -6650,6 +6650,7 @@ static int tracing_release_pipe(struct i
free_cpumask_var(iter->started);
kfree(iter->fmt);
+ kfree(iter->temp);
mutex_destroy(&iter->mutex);
kfree(iter);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.15/tracing-fix-memory-leak-of-iter-temp-when-reading-trace_pipe.patch
queue-5.15/ftrace-fix-possible-warning-on-checking-all-pages-used-in-ftrace_process_locs.patch
queue-5.15/ring-buffer-fix-deadloop-issue-on-reading-trace_pipe.patch
