[PATCH] tracing: Fix memleak due to race between current_tracer and trace

From: Zheng Yejian
Date: Tue Aug 08 2023 - 14:31:52 EST


Kmemleak report a leak in graph_trace_open():

unreferenced object 0xffff0040b95f4a00 (size 128):
comm "cat", pid 204981, jiffies 4301155872 (age 99771.964s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
e0 05 e7 b4 ab 7d 00 00 0b 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 .....}..........
f4 00 01 10 00 a0 ff ff 00 00 00 00 65 00 10 00 ............e...
backtrace:
[<000000005db27c8b>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x348/0x5f0
[<000000007df90faa>] graph_trace_open+0xb0/0x344
[<00000000737524cd>] __tracing_open+0x450/0xb10
[<0000000098043327>] tracing_open+0x1a0/0x2a0
[<00000000291c3876>] do_dentry_open+0x3c0/0xdc0
[<000000004015bcd6>] vfs_open+0x98/0xd0
[<000000002b5f60c9>] do_open+0x520/0x8d0
[<00000000376c7820>] path_openat+0x1c0/0x3e0
[<00000000336a54b5>] do_filp_open+0x14c/0x324
[<000000002802df13>] do_sys_openat2+0x2c4/0x530
[<0000000094eea458>] __arm64_sys_openat+0x130/0x1c4
[<00000000a71d7881>] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xfc/0x394
[<00000000313647bf>] do_el0_svc+0xac/0xec
[<000000002ef1c651>] el0_svc+0x20/0x30
[<000000002fd4692a>] el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4
[<000000000c309c35>] el0_sync+0x160/0x180

The root cause is descripted as follows:

__tracing_open() { // 1. File 'trace' is being opened;
...
*iter->trace = *tr->current_trace; // 2. Tracer 'function_graph' is
// currently set;
...
iter->trace->open(iter); // 3. Call graph_trace_open() here,
// and memory are allocated in it;
...
}

s_start() { // 4. The opened file is being read;
...
*iter->trace = *tr->current_trace; // 5. If tracer is switched to
// 'nop' or others, then memory
// in step 3 are leaked!!!
...
}

To fix it, in s_start(), close tracer before switching then reopen the
new tracer after switching.

Fixes: d7350c3f4569 ("tracing/core: make the read callbacks reentrants")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index b8870078ef58..d50a0227baa3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -4213,8 +4213,15 @@ static void *s_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
* will point to the same string as current_trace->name.
*/
mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
- if (unlikely(tr->current_trace && iter->trace->name != tr->current_trace->name))
+ if (unlikely(tr->current_trace && iter->trace->name != tr->current_trace->name)) {
+ /* Close iter->trace before switching to the new current tracer */
+ if (iter->trace->close)
+ iter->trace->close(iter);
*iter->trace = *tr->current_trace;
+ /* Reopen the new current tracer */
+ if (iter->trace->open)
+ iter->trace->open(iter);
+ }
mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);

#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
--
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