Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jan 2016 21:05:06 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | [PATCH] ftrace/module: Call clean up function when module init fails early |
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[ Rusty, I'm currently testing this patch. Can you give me an Acked-by? ]
If the module init code fails after calling ftrace_module_init() and before calling do_init_module(), we can suffer from a memory leak. This is because ftrace_module_init() allocates pages to store the locations that ftrace hooks are placed in the module text. If do_init_module() fails, it still calls the MODULE_GOING notifiers which will tell ftrace to do a clean up of the pages it allocated for the module. But if load_module() fails before then, the pages allocated by ftrace_module_init() will never be freed.
Call ftrace_release_mod() on the module if load_module() fails before getting to do_init_module().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/567CEA31.1070507@intel.com
Reported-by: "Qiu, PeiyangX" <peiyangx.qiu@intel.com> Fixes: a949ae560a511 "ftrace/module: Hardcode ftrace_module_init() call into load_module()" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.38+ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> --- kernel/module.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 8f051a106676..38c7bd5583ff 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -3571,6 +3571,12 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs, synchronize_sched(); mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); free_module: + /* + * Ftrace needs to clean up what it initialized. + * This does nothing if ftrace_module_init() wasn't called, + * but it must be called outside of module_mutex. + */ + ftrace_release_mod(mod); /* Free lock-classes; relies on the preceding sync_rcu() */ lockdep_free_key_range(mod->module_core, mod->core_size); -- 1.8.3.1
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