This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tracing: Fix leaks of filter preds
to the 3.4-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-leaks-of-filter-preds.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 60705c89460fdc7227f2d153b68b3f34814738a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 15:40:48 -0400
Subject: tracing: Fix leaks of filter preds
From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 60705c89460fdc7227f2d153b68b3f34814738a4 upstream.
Special preds are created when folding a series of preds that
can be done in serial. These are allocated in an ops field of
the pred structure. But they were never freed, causing memory
leaks.
This was discovered using the kmemleak checker:
unreferenced object 0xffff8800797fd5e0 (size 32):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294690605 (age 104.608s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 01 00 03 00 05 00 07 00 09 00 0b 00 0d 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff814b52af>] kmemleak_alloc+0x73/0x98
[<ffffffff8111ff84>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive.constprop.42+0x16/0x18
[<ffffffff81120e68>] __kmalloc+0xd7/0x125
[<ffffffff810d47eb>] kcalloc.constprop.24+0x2d/0x2f
[<ffffffff810d4896>] fold_pred_tree_cb+0xa9/0xf4
[<ffffffff810d3781>] walk_pred_tree+0x47/0xcc
[<ffffffff810d5030>] replace_preds.isra.20+0x6f8/0x72f
[<ffffffff810d50b5>] create_filter+0x4e/0x8b
[<ffffffff81b1c30d>] ftrace_test_event_filter+0x5a/0x155
[<ffffffff8100028d>] do_one_initcall+0xa0/0x137
[<ffffffff81afbedf>] kernel_init_freeable+0x14d/0x1dc
[<ffffffff814b24b7>] kernel_init+0xe/0xdb
[<ffffffff814d539c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -777,7 +777,11 @@ static int filter_set_pred(struct event_
static void __free_preds(struct event_filter *filter)
{
+ int i;
+
if (filter->preds) {
+ for (i = 0; i < filter->n_preds; i++)
+ kfree(filter->preds[i].ops);
kfree(filter->preds);
filter->preds = NULL;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/tracing-fix-leaks-of-filter-preds.patch
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