linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.7 31/69] fix memory leaks in tracing_buffers_splice

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Message-Id: <20160928090446.390264960@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:05:13 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 4.7 31/69] fix memory leaks in tracing_buffers_splice_read()

4.7-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

commit 1ae2293dd6d2f5c823cf97e60b70d03631cd622f upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |   14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -5929,9 +5929,6 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file
 		return -EBUSY;
 #endif
 
-	if (splice_grow_spd(pipe, &spd))
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
 	if (*ppos & (PAGE_SIZE - 1))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -5941,6 +5938,9 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file
 		len &= PAGE_MASK;
 	}
 
+	if (splice_grow_spd(pipe, &spd))
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
  again:
 	trace_access_lock(iter->cpu_file);
 	entries = ring_buffer_entries_cpu(iter->trace_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file);
@@ -5998,19 +5998,21 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file
 	/* did we read anything? */
 	if (!spd.nr_pages) {
 		if (ret)
-			return ret;
+			goto out;
 
+		ret = -EAGAIN;
 		if ((file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) || (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK))
-			return -EAGAIN;
+			goto out;
 
 		ret = wait_on_pipe(iter, true);
 		if (ret)
-			return ret;
+			goto out;
 
 		goto again;
 	}
 
 	ret = splice_to_pipe(pipe, &spd);
+out:
 	splice_shrink_spd(&spd);
 
 	return ret;