[PATCH] tracing: Fix leak of ring buffer data when new instances creation fails

[Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)]

Yoshihiro Yunomae reported that the ring buffer data for a trace
instance does not get properly cleaned up when it fails. He proposed
a patch that manually cleaned the data up and addad a bunch of labels.
The labels are not needed because all trace array is allocated with
a kzalloc which initializes it to 0 and all kfree()s can take a NULL
pointer and will ignore it.

Adding a new helper function free_trace_buffers() that can also take
null buffers to free the buffers that were allocated by
allocate_trace_buffers().

Link: 20140605223522.32311.31664.stgit@yunodevel">http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140605223522.32311.31664.stgit@yunodevel

Reported-by: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index e29edee..26cfff3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -6232,6 +6232,25 @@ static int allocate_trace_buffers(struct trace_array *tr, int size)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void free_trace_buffers(struct trace_array *tr)
+{
+	if (!tr)
+		return;
+
+	if (tr->trace_buffer.buffer) {
+		ring_buffer_free(tr->trace_buffer.buffer);
+		tr->trace_buffer.buffer = NULL;
+		free_percpu(tr->trace_buffer.data);
+	}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
+	if (tr->max_buffer.buffer) {
+		ring_buffer_free(tr->max_buffer.buffer);
+		tr->max_buffer.buffer = NULL;
+	}
+#endif
+}
+
 static int new_instance_create(const char *name)
 {
 	struct trace_array *tr;
@@ -6290,8 +6309,7 @@ static int new_instance_create(const char *name)
 	return 0;
 
  out_free_tr:
-	if (tr->trace_buffer.buffer)
-		ring_buffer_free(tr->trace_buffer.buffer);
+	free_trace_buffers(tr);
 	free_cpumask_var(tr->tracing_cpumask);
 	kfree(tr->name);
 	kfree(tr);
-- 
1.8.1.4

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