[v6.6][PATCH 10/57] eventfs: Fix failure path in eventfs_create_events_dir()

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Feb 06 2024 - 07:16:20 EST


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

The failure path of allocating ei goes to a path that dereferences ei.
Add another label that skips over the ei dereferences to do the rest of
the clean up.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/70e7bace-561c-95f-1117-706c2c220bc@xxxxxxxx/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231019204132.6662fef0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Fixes: 5790b1fb3d67 ("eventfs: Remove eventfs_file and just use eventfs_inode")
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
(cherry picked from commit 7e8ad67c9b5c11e990c320ed7e7563f2301672a7)
---
fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index 9f19b6608954..1885f1f1f339 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name, struct dentry

ei = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ei)
- goto fail;
+ goto fail_ei;

inode = tracefs_get_inode(dentry->d_sb);
if (unlikely(!inode))
@@ -781,6 +781,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name, struct dentry
fail:
kfree(ei->d_children);
kfree(ei);
+ fail_ei:
tracefs_failed_creating(dentry);
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
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2.43.0