linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 61/78] perf/core: Fix a memory leak in perf_event_parse_addr

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Date:   Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:05:27 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, =?UTF-8?q?kiyin ?= <kiyin@...cent.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@...il.mit.edu>,
        Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...zon.com>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 61/78] perf/core: Fix a memory leak in perf_event_parse_addr_filter()

From: "kiyin(尹亮)" <kiyin@...cent.com>

commit 7bdb157cdebbf95a1cd94ed2e01b338714075d00 upstream

As shown through runtime testing, the "filename" allocation is not
always freed in perf_event_parse_addr_filter().

There are three possible ways that this could happen:

 - It could be allocated twice on subsequent iterations through the loop,
 - or leaked on the success path,
 - or on the failure path.

Clean up the code flow to make it obvious that 'filename' is always
freed in the reallocation path and in the two return paths as well.

We rely on the fact that kfree(NULL) is NOP and filename is initialized
with NULL.

This fixes the leak. No other side effects expected.

[ Dan Carpenter: cleaned up the code flow & added a changelog. ]
[ Ingo Molnar: updated the changelog some more. ]

Fixes: 375637bc5249 ("perf/core: Introduce address range filtering")
Signed-off-by: "kiyin(尹亮)" <kiyin@...cent.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@...il.mit.edu>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...zon.com>
[sudip: Backported to 4.9: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/events/core.c |   10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8261,6 +8261,7 @@ perf_event_parse_addr_filter(struct perf
 			if (token == IF_SRC_FILE || token == IF_SRC_FILEADDR) {
 				int fpos = filter->range ? 2 : 1;
 
+				kfree(filename);
 				filename = match_strdup(&args[fpos]);
 				if (!filename) {
 					ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -8292,10 +8293,7 @@ perf_event_parse_addr_filter(struct perf
 				ret = kern_path(filename, LOOKUP_FOLLOW,
 						&filter->path);
 				if (ret)
-					goto fail_free_name;
-
-				kfree(filename);
-				filename = NULL;
+					goto fail;
 
 				ret = -EINVAL;
 				if (!filter->path.dentry ||
@@ -8313,13 +8311,13 @@ perf_event_parse_addr_filter(struct perf
 	if (state != IF_STATE_ACTION)
 		goto fail;
 
+	kfree(filename);
 	kfree(orig);
 
 	return 0;
 
-fail_free_name:
-	kfree(filename);
 fail:
+	kfree(filename);
 	free_filters_list(filters);
 	kfree(orig);