diff mbox series

[5.10,013/100] tracing/histogram: Fix a potential memory leak for kstrdup()

Message ID 20220131105220.901115801@linuxfoundation.org
State New
Headers show
Series None | expand

Commit Message

Greg KH Jan. 31, 2022, 10:55 a.m. UTC 
From: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com>

commit e629e7b525a179e29d53463d992bdee759c950fb upstream.

kfree() is missing on an error path to free the memory allocated by
kstrdup():

  p = param = kstrdup(data->params[i], GFP_KERNEL);

So it is better to free it via kfree(p).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/tencent_C52895FD37802832A3E5B272D05008866F0A@qq.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d380dcde9a07c ("tracing: Fix now invalid var_ref_vals assumption in trace action")
Signed-off-by: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff mbox series

Patch

--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -3506,6 +3506,7 @@  static int trace_action_create(struct hi
 
 			var_ref_idx = find_var_ref_idx(hist_data, var_ref);
 			if (WARN_ON(var_ref_idx < 0)) {
+				kfree(p);
 				ret = var_ref_idx;
 				goto err;
 			}