In case of errors, predicate_parse() goes to the out_free label to free memory and to return an error code.
However, predicate_parse() does not free the predicates of the temporary prog_stack array, thence leaking them. Signed-off-by: Tomas Bortoli <tomasbort...@gmail.com> Reported-by: syzbot+6b8e0fb820e570c59...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com --- kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c index 05a66493a164..ecfa6f0f1c7e 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ predicate_parse(const char *str, int nr_parens, int nr_preds, op_stack = kmalloc_array(nr_parens, sizeof(*op_stack), GFP_KERNEL); if (!op_stack) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - prog_stack = kmalloc_array(nr_preds, sizeof(*prog_stack), GFP_KERNEL); + prog_stack = kcalloc(nr_preds, sizeof(*prog_stack), GFP_KERNEL); if (!prog_stack) { parse_error(pe, -ENOMEM, 0); goto out_free; @@ -578,6 +578,8 @@ predicate_parse(const char *str, int nr_parens, int nr_preds, out_free: kfree(op_stack); kfree(inverts); + for (i = 0; prog_stack[i].pred; i++) + kfree(prog_stack[i].pred); kfree(prog_stack); return ERR_PTR(ret); } -- 2.11.0