From 12652ed0daff9ea1b69143581ac2560e85412669 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:34:04 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] kprobes: initialize before using a hlist commit d496aab567e7e52b3e974c9192a5de6e77dce32c upstream. Commit ef53d9c5e ("kprobes: improve kretprobe scalability with hashed locking") introduced a bug where we can potentially leak kretprobe_instances since we initialize a hlist head after having used it. Initialize the hlist head before using it. Reported by: Jim Keniston Acked-by: Jim Keniston Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Srinivasa D S Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/kprobes.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c index 5240d75f4c6..176d8255c68 100644 --- a/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -466,6 +466,7 @@ void __kprobes kprobe_flush_task(struct task_struct *tk) /* Early boot. kretprobe_table_locks not yet initialized. */ return; + INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&empty_rp); hash = hash_ptr(tk, KPROBE_HASH_BITS); head = &kretprobe_inst_table[hash]; kretprobe_table_lock(hash, &flags); @@ -474,7 +475,6 @@ void __kprobes kprobe_flush_task(struct task_struct *tk) recycle_rp_inst(ri, &empty_rp); } kretprobe_table_unlock(hash, &flags); - INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&empty_rp); hlist_for_each_entry_safe(ri, node, tmp, &empty_rp, hlist) { hlist_del(&ri->hlist); kfree(ri); -- 2.11.4.GIT