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Subject[tip:tracing/filters] tracing: add run-time field descriptions for event filtering, kfree fix
Commit-ID:  fe9f57f250ab4d781b99504caeb218ca2db14c1a
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/fe9f57f250ab4d781b99504caeb218ca2db14c1a
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
AuthorDate: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:41:59 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:43:25 +0100

tracing: add run-time field descriptions for event filtering, kfree fix

Impact: fix potential kfree of random data in (rare) failure path

Zero-initialize the field structure.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237710639.7703.46.camel@charm-linux>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


---
kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 97d4daa..594d78a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -24,26 +24,31 @@ int trace_define_field(struct ftrace_event_call *call, char *type,
{
struct ftrace_event_field *field;

- field = kmalloc(sizeof(*field), GFP_KERNEL);
+ field = kzalloc(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);
}
kfree(field);
+
return -ENOMEM;
}


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