From nobody Mon Apr 13 14:27:29 2026 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3D7C4332F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:25:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234346AbiKQBZ0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2022 20:25:26 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:33610 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233023AbiKQBZY (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2022 20:25:24 -0500 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com (szxga01-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.187]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8A0D92CDDE for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:25:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from kwepemi500016.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.57]) by szxga01-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4NCMfK51ypzmVsy; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:24:57 +0800 (CST) Received: from huawei.com (10.175.100.227) by kwepemi500016.china.huawei.com (7.221.188.220) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.31; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:25:20 +0800 From: Shang XiaoJing To: , , , , CC: Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] tracing: Fix memory leak in test_gen_synth_cmd() and test_empty_synth_event() Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:23:45 +0800 Message-ID: <20221117012346.22647-2-shangxiaojing@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 In-Reply-To: <20221117012346.22647-1-shangxiaojing@huawei.com> References: <20221117012346.22647-1-shangxiaojing@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [10.175.100.227] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems701-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.178) To kwepemi500016.china.huawei.com (7.221.188.220) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" test_gen_synth_cmd() only free buf in fail path, hence buf will leak when there is no failure. Add kfree(buf) to prevent the memleak. The same reason and solution in test_empty_synth_event(). unreferenced object 0xffff8881127de000 (size 2048): comm "modprobe", pid 247, jiffies 4294972316 (age 78.756s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 20 67 65 6e 5f 73 79 6e 74 68 5f 74 65 73 74 20 gen_synth_test 20 70 69 64 5f 74 20 6e 65 78 74 5f 70 69 64 5f pid_t next_pid_ backtrace: [<000000004254801a>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x100 [<0000000039eb1cf5>] 0xffffffffa00083cd [<000000000e8c3bc8>] 0xffffffffa00086ba [<00000000c293d1ea>] do_one_initcall+0xdb/0x480 [<00000000aa189e6d>] do_init_module+0x1cf/0x680 [<00000000d513222b>] load_module+0x6a50/0x70a0 [<000000001fd4d529>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x12f/0x1c0 [<00000000b36c4c0f>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 [<00000000bbf20cf3>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd unreferenced object 0xffff8881127df000 (size 2048): comm "modprobe", pid 247, jiffies 4294972324 (age 78.728s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 20 65 6d 70 74 79 5f 73 79 6e 74 68 5f 74 65 73 empty_synth_tes 74 20 20 70 69 64 5f 74 20 6e 65 78 74 5f 70 69 t pid_t next_pi backtrace: [<000000004254801a>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x100 [<00000000d4db9a3d>] 0xffffffffa0008071 [<00000000c31354a5>] 0xffffffffa00086ce [<00000000c293d1ea>] do_one_initcall+0xdb/0x480 [<00000000aa189e6d>] do_init_module+0x1cf/0x680 [<00000000d513222b>] load_module+0x6a50/0x70a0 [<000000001fd4d529>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x12f/0x1c0 [<00000000b36c4c0f>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 [<00000000bbf20cf3>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd Fixes: 9fe41efaca08 ("tracing: Add synth event generation test module") Signed-off-by: Shang XiaoJing --- changes in v2: - adjust code for clean. --- kernel/trace/synth_event_gen_test.c | 16 ++++++---------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/synth_event_gen_test.c b/kernel/trace/synth_event= _gen_test.c index 0b15e975d2c2..8d77526892f4 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/synth_event_gen_test.c +++ b/kernel/trace/synth_event_gen_test.c @@ -120,15 +120,13 @@ static int __init test_gen_synth_cmd(void) =20 /* Now generate a gen_synth_test event */ ret =3D synth_event_trace_array(gen_synth_test, vals, ARRAY_SIZE(vals)); - out: + free: + kfree(buf); return ret; delete: /* We got an error after creating the event, delete it */ synth_event_delete("gen_synth_test"); - free: - kfree(buf); - - goto out; + goto free; } =20 /* @@ -227,15 +225,13 @@ static int __init test_empty_synth_event(void) =20 /* Now trace an empty_synth_test event */ ret =3D synth_event_trace_array(empty_synth_test, vals, ARRAY_SIZE(vals)); - out: + free: + kfree(buf); return ret; delete: /* We got an error after creating the event, delete it */ synth_event_delete("empty_synth_test"); - free: - kfree(buf); - - goto out; + goto free; } =20 static struct synth_field_desc create_synth_test_fields[] =3D { --=20 2.17.1