tracing: kernel/trace/trace.c: introduce missing kfree()

Impact: fix memory leak

Error handling code following a kzalloc should free the allocated data.

The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@r exists@
local idexpression x;
statement S;
expression E;
identifier f,l;
position p1,p2;
expression *ptr != NULL;
@@

(
if ((x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...)) == NULL) S
|
x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...);
...
if (x == NULL) S
)
<... when != x
     when != if (...) { <+...x...+> }
x->f = E
...>
(
 return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\);
|
 return@p2 ...;
)

@script:python@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
@@

print "* file: %s kmalloc %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 697eda36b86a54e902a2289d2adf767ca1278460..d86e3252f3000024cfaf31c63ffbee765dafac53 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1936,6 +1936,7 @@ __tracing_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, int *ret)
                        ring_buffer_read_finish(iter->buffer_iter[cpu]);
        }
        mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
+       kfree(iter);
 
        return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 }