tracing: Fix memleak due to race between current_tracer and trace
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. And some tracers like 'wakeup' may not update 'iter->private' in some cases when reopen, then it should be cleared to avoid being mistakenly closed again. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230817125539.1646321-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com Fixes: d7350c3f ("tracing/core: make the read callbacks reentrants") Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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