[PATCH 3.16 135/294] tracing: Fix freeing of filter in create_filter() when set_str is false

[Ben Hutchings]

3.16.50-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 8b0db1a5bdfcee0dbfa89607672598ae203c9045 upstream.

Performing the following task with kmemleak enabled:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/irq/irq_handler_entry/
 # echo 'enable_event:kmem:kmalloc:3 if irq >' > trigger
 # echo 'enable_event:kmem:kmalloc:3 if irq > 31' > trigger
 # echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
unreferenced object 0xffff8800b9290308 (size 32):
  comm "bash", pid 1114, jiffies 4294848451 (age 141.139s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff81cef5aa>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
    [<ffffffff81357938>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x158/0x290
    [<ffffffff81261c09>] create_filter_start.constprop.28+0x99/0x940
    [<ffffffff812639c9>] create_filter+0xa9/0x160
    [<ffffffff81263bdc>] create_event_filter+0xc/0x10
    [<ffffffff812655e5>] set_trigger_filter+0xe5/0x210
    [<ffffffff812660c4>] event_enable_trigger_func+0x324/0x490
    [<ffffffff812652e2>] event_trigger_write+0x1a2/0x260
    [<ffffffff8138cf87>] __vfs_write+0xd7/0x380
    [<ffffffff8138f421>] vfs_write+0x101/0x260
    [<ffffffff8139187b>] SyS_write+0xab/0x130
    [<ffffffff81cfd501>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

The function create_filter() is passed a 'filterp' pointer that gets
allocated, and if "set_str" is true, it is up to the caller to free it, even
on error. The problem is that the pointer is not freed by create_filter()
when set_str is false. This is a bug, and it is not up to the caller to free
the filter on error if it doesn't care about the string.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502705898-27571-2-git-send-email-chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx

Fixes: 38b78eb85 ("tracing: Factorize filter creation")
Reported-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -1950,6 +1950,10 @@ static int create_filter(struct ftrace_e
 		if (err && set_str)
 			append_filter_err(ps, filter);
 	}
+	if (err && !set_str) {
+		free_event_filter(filter);
+		filter = NULL;
+	}
 	create_filter_finish(ps);
 
 	*filterp = filter;