Re: [PATCH] fix a potential memleak in rethook_alloc()

From: Google
Date: Thu Nov 10 2022 - 19:31:00 EST


On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:44:38 +0800
Yi Yang <yiyang13@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In rethook_alloc(), the variable rh is not freed or passed out
> if handler is NULL, which could lead to a memleak, fix it.
>

Oops, good catch!

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you!

> Fixes: 54ecbe6f1ed5 ("rethook: Add a generic return hook")
> Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yiyang13@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/trace/rethook.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/rethook.c b/kernel/trace/rethook.c
> index 01df98db2fbe..f50aebc7698e 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/rethook.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/rethook.c
> @@ -91,8 +91,10 @@ struct rethook *rethook_alloc(void *data, rethook_handler_t handler, gfp_t gfp,
> {
> struct rethook *rh = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rethook), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> - if (!rh || !handler)
> + if (!rh || !handler) {
> + kfree(rh);
> return NULL;
> + }
>
> rh->data = data;
> rh->handler = handler;
> --
> 2.17.1
>


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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>