From: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d5a821896360cc8b93a15bd888fabc858c038dc0 upstream. kmemleak reports: unreferenced object 0xffff88814d14e200 (size 256): comm "cat", pid 336, jiffies 4294871818 (age 779.490s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 04 00 01 03 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0c d8 c8 9b ff ff ff ff 04 5a ca 9b ff ff ff ff .........Z...... backtrace: [<ffffffff9bdff18f>] __kmalloc+0x4f/0x140 [<ffffffff9bc9238b>] trace_find_next_entry+0xbb/0x1d0 [<ffffffff9bc9caef>] trace_print_lat_context+0xaf/0x4e0 [<ffffffff9bc94490>] print_trace_line+0x3e0/0x950 [<ffffffff9bc95499>] tracing_read_pipe+0x2d9/0x5a0 [<ffffffff9bf03a43>] vfs_read+0x143/0x520 [<ffffffff9bf04c2d>] ksys_read+0xbd/0x160 [<ffffffff9d0f0edf>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 [<ffffffff9d2000aa>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 when reading file 'trace_pipe', 'iter->temp' is allocated or relocated in trace_find_next_entry() but not freed before 'trace_pipe' is closed. To fix it, free 'iter->temp' in tracing_release_pipe(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230713141435.1133021-1-zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: ff895103a84ab ("tracing: Save off entry when peeking at next entry") Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> [Fix conflict due to lack of 649e72070cbbb8600eb823833e4748f5a0815116] Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -6250,6 +6250,7 @@ static int tracing_release_pipe(struct i mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock); free_cpumask_var(iter->started); + kfree(iter->temp); mutex_destroy(&iter->mutex); kfree(iter);