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authorSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2017-12-26 20:07:34 -0500
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2017-12-27 14:21:27 -0500
commit4397f04575c44e1440ec2e49b6302785c95fd2f8 (patch)
treef19586c8935eb246577a72637c12378bf10fede1 /kernel
parenttracing: Fix crash when it fails to alloc ring buffer (diff)
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tracing: Fix possible double free on failure of allocating trace buffer
Jing Xia and Chunyan Zhang reported that on failing to allocate part of the tracing buffer, memory is freed, but the pointers that point to them are not initialized back to NULL, and later paths may try to free the freed memory again. Jing and Chunyan fixed one of the locations that does this, but missed a spot. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171226071253.8968-1-chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 737223fbca3b1 ("tracing: Consolidate buffer allocation code") Reported-by: Jing Xia <jing.xia@spreadtrum.com> Reported-by: Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 0e53d46544b8..2a8d8a294345 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -7580,6 +7580,7 @@ allocate_trace_buffer(struct trace_array *tr, struct trace_buffer *buf, int size
buf->data = alloc_percpu(struct trace_array_cpu);
if (!buf->data) {
ring_buffer_free(buf->buffer);
+ buf->buffer = NULL;
return -ENOMEM;
}