From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Jing Xia and Chunyan Zhang reported that on failing to allocate part of the tracing buffer, memory is freed, but the pointers that point to them are not initialized back to NULL, and later paths may try to free the freed memory again. Jing and Chunyan fixed one of the locations that does this, but missed a spot. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171226071253.8968-1-chunyan.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 737223fbca3b1 ("tracing: Consolidate buffer allocation code") Reported-by: Jing Xia <jing.xia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 0e53d46544b8..2a8d8a294345 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -7580,6 +7580,7 @@ allocate_trace_buffer(struct trace_array *tr, struct trace_buffer *buf, int size buf->data = alloc_percpu(struct trace_array_cpu); if (!buf->data) { ring_buffer_free(buf->buffer); + buf->buffer = NULL; return -ENOMEM; } -- 2.13.2