From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Performing the following task with kmemleak enabled: # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/irq/irq_handler_entry/ # echo 'enable_event:kmem:kmalloc:3 if irq >' > trigger # echo 'enable_event:kmem:kmalloc:3 if irq > 31' > trigger # echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak unreferenced object 0xffff8800b9290308 (size 32): comm "bash", pid 1114, jiffies 4294848451 (age 141.139s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff81cef5aa>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0 [<ffffffff81357938>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x158/0x290 [<ffffffff81261c09>] create_filter_start.constprop.28+0x99/0x940 [<ffffffff812639c9>] create_filter+0xa9/0x160 [<ffffffff81263bdc>] create_event_filter+0xc/0x10 [<ffffffff812655e5>] set_trigger_filter+0xe5/0x210 [<ffffffff812660c4>] event_enable_trigger_func+0x324/0x490 [<ffffffff812652e2>] event_trigger_write+0x1a2/0x260 [<ffffffff8138cf87>] __vfs_write+0xd7/0x380 [<ffffffff8138f421>] vfs_write+0x101/0x260 [<ffffffff8139187b>] SyS_write+0xab/0x130 [<ffffffff81cfd501>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff The function create_filter() is passed a 'filterp' pointer that gets allocated, and if "set_str" is true, it is up to the caller to free it, even on error. The problem is that the pointer is not freed by create_filter() when set_str is false. This is a bug, and it is not up to the caller to free the filter on error if it doesn't care about the string. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502705898-27571-2-git-send-email-chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 38b78eb85 ("tracing: Factorize filter creation") Reported-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c index 59a411ff60c7..181e139a8057 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c @@ -1959,6 +1959,10 @@ static int create_filter(struct trace_event_call *call, if (err && set_str) append_filter_err(ps, filter); } + if (err && !set_str) { + free_event_filter(filter); + filter = NULL; + } create_filter_finish(ps); *filterp = filter; -- 2.13.2