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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] tracing: add run-time field descriptions for event filtering

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> @@ -19,6 +19,34 @@
>
> static DEFINE_MUTEX(event_mutex);
>
> +int trace_define_field(struct ftrace_event_call *call, char *type,
> + char *name, int offset, int size)
> +{
> + struct ftrace_event_field *field;
> +
> + field = kmalloc(sizeof(*field), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!field)
> + goto err;
> + field->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!field->name)
> + goto err;
> + field->type = kstrdup(type, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!field->type)
> + goto err;
> + field->offset = offset;
> + field->size = size;
> + list_add(&field->link, &call->fields);
> +
> + return 0;
> +err:
> + if (field) {
> + kfree(field->name);
> + kfree(field->type);

Field was not allocated with kzalloc, if we failed to allocate name, then
type is unknown, and kfree(field->type) may corrupt the system.

What I would do is:

field = kzalloc(...);
if (!field)
return -ENOMEM;

And then we could also get rid of the if (field) check in err.


> + }
> + kfree(field);
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +}
> +

-- Steve


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