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Date:   Tue, 8 Aug 2023 17:29:05 +0800
From:   Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@...wei.com>
To:     <rostedt@...dmis.org>, <mhiramat@...nel.org>
CC:     <fweisbec@...il.com>, <mingo@...e.hu>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <zhengyejian1@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Fix memleak due to race between current_tracer and trace

Kmemleak report a leak in graph_trace_open():

  unreferenced object 0xffff0040b95f4a00 (size 128):
    comm "cat", pid 204981, jiffies 4301155872 (age 99771.964s)
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      e0 05 e7 b4 ab 7d 00 00 0b 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 .....}..........
      f4 00 01 10 00 a0 ff ff 00 00 00 00 65 00 10 00 ............e...
    backtrace:
      [<000000005db27c8b>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x348/0x5f0
      [<000000007df90faa>] graph_trace_open+0xb0/0x344
      [<00000000737524cd>] __tracing_open+0x450/0xb10
      [<0000000098043327>] tracing_open+0x1a0/0x2a0
      [<00000000291c3876>] do_dentry_open+0x3c0/0xdc0
      [<000000004015bcd6>] vfs_open+0x98/0xd0
      [<000000002b5f60c9>] do_open+0x520/0x8d0
      [<00000000376c7820>] path_openat+0x1c0/0x3e0
      [<00000000336a54b5>] do_filp_open+0x14c/0x324
      [<000000002802df13>] do_sys_openat2+0x2c4/0x530
      [<0000000094eea458>] __arm64_sys_openat+0x130/0x1c4
      [<00000000a71d7881>] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xfc/0x394
      [<00000000313647bf>] do_el0_svc+0xac/0xec
      [<000000002ef1c651>] el0_svc+0x20/0x30
      [<000000002fd4692a>] el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4
      [<000000000c309c35>] el0_sync+0x160/0x180

The root cause is descripted as follows:

  __tracing_open() {  // 1. File 'trace' is being opened;
    ...
    *iter->trace = *tr->current_trace;  // 2. Tracer 'function_graph' is
                                        //    currently set;
    ...
    iter->trace->open(iter);  // 3. Call graph_trace_open() here,
                              //    and memory are allocated in it;
    ...
  }

  s_start() {  // 4. The opened file is being read;
    ...
    *iter->trace = *tr->current_trace;  // 5. If tracer is switched to
                                        //    'nop' or others, then memory
                                        //    in step 3 are leaked!!!
    ...
  }

To fix it, in s_start(), close tracer before switching then reopen the
new tracer after switching.

Fixes: d7350c3f4569 ("tracing/core: make the read callbacks reentrants")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@...wei.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index b8870078ef58..d50a0227baa3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -4213,8 +4213,15 @@ static void *s_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
 	 * will point to the same string as current_trace->name.
 	 */
 	mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
-	if (unlikely(tr->current_trace && iter->trace->name != tr->current_trace->name))
+	if (unlikely(tr->current_trace && iter->trace->name != tr->current_trace->name)) {
+		/* Close iter->trace before switching to the new current tracer */
+		if (iter->trace->close)
+			iter->trace->close(iter);
 		*iter->trace = *tr->current_trace;
+		/* Reopen the new current tracer */
+		if (iter->trace->open)
+			iter->trace->open(iter);
+	}
 	mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
-- 
2.25.1