linux-kernel - [for-linus][PATCH 2/4] ftrace: Fix memory leak caused by not freeing entry in unregister_ftrace

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Message-Id: <20200423231920.252506175@goodmis.org>
Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:18:40 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 2/4] ftrace: Fix memory leak caused by not freeing entry in
 unregister_ftrace_direct()

From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>

kmemleak reported the following:

unreferenced object 0xffff90d47127a920 (size 32):
  comm "modprobe", pid 1766, jiffies 4294792031 (age 162.568s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 01 00 00 00 00 ad de  ........".......
    00 78 12 a7 ff ff ff ff 00 00 b6 c0 ff ff ff ff  .x..............
  backtrace:
    [<00000000bb79e72e>] register_ftrace_direct+0xcb/0x3a0
    [<00000000295e4f79>] do_one_initcall+0x72/0x340
    [<00000000873ead18>] do_init_module+0x5a/0x220
    [<00000000974d9de5>] load_module+0x2235/0x2550
    [<0000000059c3d6ce>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xc0/0x120
    [<000000005a8611b4>] do_syscall_64+0x60/0x230
    [<00000000a0cdc49e>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xb3

The entry used to save the direct descriptor needs to be freed
when unregistering.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 041694a1eb74..bd030b1b9514 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -5165,6 +5165,7 @@ int unregister_ftrace_direct(unsigned long ip, unsigned long addr)
 			list_del_rcu(&direct->next);
 			synchronize_rcu_tasks();
 			kfree(direct);
+			kfree(entry);
 			ftrace_direct_func_count--;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.26.1