4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit b61c19209c2c35ea2a2fe502d484703686eba98c upstream. The create_filter() calls create_filter_start() which allocates a "parse_error" descriptor, but fails to call create_filter_finish() that frees it. The op_stack and inverts in predicate_parse() were also not freed. Found by kmemleak detector. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 80765597bc587 ("tracing: Rewrite filter logic to be simpler and faster") Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c @@ -570,11 +570,13 @@ predicate_parse(const char *str, int nr_ } } + kfree(op_stack); + kfree(inverts); return prog; out_free: kfree(op_stack); - kfree(prog_stack); kfree(inverts); + kfree(prog_stack); return ERR_PTR(ret); } @@ -1718,6 +1720,7 @@ static int create_filter(struct trace_ev err = process_preds(call, filter_string, *filterp, pe); if (err && set_str) append_filter_err(pe, *filterp); + create_filter_finish(pe); return err; }