[PATCH] ftrace/module: Call clean up function when module init fails early

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Jan 05 2016 - 21:05:16 EST



[ Rusty, I'm currently testing this patch. Can you give me an Acked-by? ]

If the module init code fails after calling ftrace_module_init() and before
calling do_init_module(), we can suffer from a memory leak. This is because
ftrace_module_init() allocates pages to store the locations that ftrace
hooks are placed in the module text. If do_init_module() fails, it still
calls the MODULE_GOING notifiers which will tell ftrace to do a clean up of
the pages it allocated for the module. But if load_module() fails before
then, the pages allocated by ftrace_module_init() will never be freed.

Call ftrace_release_mod() on the module if load_module() fails before
getting to do_init_module().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/567CEA31.1070507@xxxxxxxxx

Reported-by: "Qiu, PeiyangX" <peiyangx.qiu@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: a949ae560a511 "ftrace/module: Hardcode ftrace_module_init() call into load_module()"
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v2.6.38+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/module.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 8f051a106676..38c7bd5583ff 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -3571,6 +3571,12 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs,
synchronize_sched();
mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
free_module:
+ /*
+ * Ftrace needs to clean up what it initialized.
+ * This does nothing if ftrace_module_init() wasn't called,
+ * but it must be called outside of module_mutex.
+ */
+ ftrace_release_mod(mod);
/* Free lock-classes; relies on the preceding sync_rcu() */
lockdep_free_key_range(mod->module_core, mod->core_size);

--
1.8.3.1

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