linux-kernel - [Memory Leak] free kprobe before optimized

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Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:35:32 +0530
From:	akhilesh kumar <kumarakhilesh479@...il.com>
To:	ananth@...ibm.com, anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [Memory Leak] free kprobe before optimized_kprobe free

>From a77438899c7295299b59cdca8d1816ea69d6ed8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Akhilesh Kumar <akhilesh.lxr@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:02:07 +0530
Subject:[Memory Leak] free kprobe before optimized_kprobe free

Free *ap before *op otherwise ap pointer will be Dangling

Signed-off-by: Akhilesh Kumar <akhilesh.lxr@...il.com>
---
 kernel/kprobes.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index c62b854..ff0a97b 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -767,6 +767,7 @@ static __kprobes void
try_to_optimize_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
 	if (!arch_prepared_optinsn(&op->optinsn)) {
 		/* If failed to setup optimizing, fallback to kprobe */
 		arch_remove_optimized_kprobe(op);
+		kfree(ap);
 		kfree(op);
 		return;
 	}
-- 
1.7.8.4
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