kprobes: fix a memory leak in function pre_handler_kretprobe()
authorJiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Fri, 3 Feb 2012 23:37:16 +0000 (15:37 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:16:41 +0000 (16:16 -0800)
In function pre_handler_kretprobe(), the allocated kretprobe_instance
object will get leaked if the entry_handler callback returns non-zero.
This may cause all the preallocated kretprobe_instance objects exhausted.

This issue can be reproduced by changing
samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c to probe "mutex_unlock".  And the fix
is straightforward: just put the allocated kretprobe_instance object back
onto the free_instances list.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use raw_spin_lock/unlock]
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/kprobes.c

index 29f5b65..9788c0e 100644 (file)
@@ -1673,8 +1673,12 @@ static int __kprobes pre_handler_kretprobe(struct kprobe *p,
                ri->rp = rp;
                ri->task = current;
 
-               if (rp->entry_handler && rp->entry_handler(ri, regs))
+               if (rp->entry_handler && rp->entry_handler(ri, regs)) {
+                       raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rp->lock, flags);
+                       hlist_add_head(&ri->hlist, &rp->free_instances);
+                       raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rp->lock, flags);
                        return 0;
+               }
 
                arch_prepare_kretprobe(ri, regs);