[tip:perf/core] trace_kprobes: Fix memory leak

From: tip-bot for Lai Jiangshan
Date: Fri Nov 27 2009 - 00:50:49 EST


Commit-ID: abab9d37d2a826fcf588c5f30152dbe05c40111c
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/abab9d37d2a826fcf588c5f30152dbe05c40111c
Author: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:32:21 +0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:43:04 +0100

trace_kprobes: Fix memory leak

tp->nr_args is not set before we "goto error",
it causes memory leak for free_trace_probe() use tp->nr_args
to free memory of args.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <4B0CEB95.2060107@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index 79ce6a2..82e8583 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -704,10 +704,12 @@ static int create_trace_probe(int argc, char **argv)
ret = parse_probe_arg(arg, &tp->args[i].fetch, is_return);
if (ret) {
pr_info("Parse error at argument%d. (%d)\n", i, ret);
+ kfree(tp->args[i].name);
goto error;
}
+
+ tp->nr_args++;
}
- tp->nr_args = i;

ret = register_trace_probe(tp);
if (ret)
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