[PATCH] tracing/filters: Fix memory leak when setting a filter

From: Li Zefan
Date: Mon Oct 12 2009 - 21:31:30 EST


Every time we set a filter, we leak memory allocated by
postfix_append_operand() and postfix_append_op().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
index 2324578..98a6cc5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -933,8 +933,9 @@ static void postfix_clear(struct filter_parse_state *ps)

while (!list_empty(&ps->postfix)) {
elt = list_first_entry(&ps->postfix, struct postfix_elt, list);
- kfree(elt->operand);
list_del(&elt->list);
+ kfree(elt->operand);
+ kfree(elt);
}
}

--
1.6.3

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