From fe9f57f250ab4d781b99504caeb218ca2db14c1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:41:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: Tom Zanussi LKML-Reference: <1237710639.7703.46.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c index 97d4daaddd9a..594d78aaa185 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; } -- 2.39.5