This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tracing: Fix kmemleak in tracing_map_array_free() to the 4.9-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-kmemleak-in-tracing_map_array_free.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 475bb3c69ab05df2a6ecef6acc2393703d134180 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:18:17 +0800 Subject: tracing: Fix kmemleak in tracing_map_array_free() From: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 475bb3c69ab05df2a6ecef6acc2393703d134180 upstream. kmemleak reported the below leak when I was doing clear of the hist trigger. With this patch, the kmeamleak is gone. unreferenced object 0xffff94322b63d760 (size 32): comm "bash", pid 1522, jiffies 4403687962 (age 2442.311s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 01 00 00 04 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ................ 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 a8 7a f2 31 94 ff ff ..........z.1... backtrace: [<ffffffff9e96c27a>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0 [<ffffffff9e424cba>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xca/0x1d0 [<ffffffff9e377736>] tracing_map_array_alloc+0x26/0x140 [<ffffffff9e261be0>] kretprobe_trampoline+0x0/0x50 [<ffffffff9e38b935>] create_hist_data+0x535/0x750 [<ffffffff9e38bd47>] event_hist_trigger_func+0x1f7/0x420 [<ffffffff9e38893d>] event_trigger_write+0xfd/0x1a0 [<ffffffff9e44dfc7>] __vfs_write+0x37/0x170 [<ffffffff9e44f552>] vfs_write+0xb2/0x1b0 [<ffffffff9e450b85>] SyS_write+0x55/0xc0 [<ffffffff9e203857>] do_syscall_64+0x67/0x150 [<ffffffff9e977ce7>] return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x6a [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff unreferenced object 0xffff9431f27aa880 (size 128): comm "bash", pid 1522, jiffies 4403687962 (age 2442.311s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 8c 2a 32 94 ff ff 00 f0 8b 2a 32 94 ff ff ...*2......*2... 00 e0 8b 2a 32 94 ff ff 00 d0 8b 2a 32 94 ff ff ...*2......*2... backtrace: [<ffffffff9e96c27a>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0 [<ffffffff9e425348>] __kmalloc+0xe8/0x220 [<ffffffff9e3777c1>] tracing_map_array_alloc+0xb1/0x140 [<ffffffff9e261be0>] kretprobe_trampoline+0x0/0x50 [<ffffffff9e38b935>] create_hist_data+0x535/0x750 [<ffffffff9e38bd47>] event_hist_trigger_func+0x1f7/0x420 [<ffffffff9e38893d>] event_trigger_write+0xfd/0x1a0 [<ffffffff9e44dfc7>] __vfs_write+0x37/0x170 [<ffffffff9e44f552>] vfs_write+0xb2/0x1b0 [<ffffffff9e450b85>] SyS_write+0x55/0xc0 [<ffffffff9e203857>] do_syscall_64+0x67/0x150 [<ffffffff9e977ce7>] return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x6a [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502705898-27571-1-git-send-email-chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 08d43a5fa063 ("tracing: Add lock-free tracing_map") Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/tracing_map.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/trace/tracing_map.c +++ b/kernel/trace/tracing_map.c @@ -221,16 +221,19 @@ void tracing_map_array_free(struct traci if (!a) return; - if (!a->pages) { - kfree(a); - return; - } + if (!a->pages) + goto free; for (i = 0; i < a->n_pages; i++) { if (!a->pages[i]) break; free_page((unsigned long)a->pages[i]); } + + kfree(a->pages); + + free: + kfree(a); } struct tracing_map_array *tracing_map_array_alloc(unsigned int n_elts, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/tracing-fix-freeing-of-filter-in-create_filter-when-set_str-is-false.patch queue-4.9/tracing-fix-kmemleak-in-tracing_map_array_free.patch