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kprobes: fix a memory leak in function pre_handler_kretprobe()
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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>
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Jiang Liu authored and Linus Torvalds committed Feb 4, 2012
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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion kernel/kprobes.c
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Expand Up @@ -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);

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