tracing: add run-time field descriptions for event filtering, kfree fix

Impact: fix potential kfree of random data in (rare) failure path

Zero-initialize the field structure.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237710639.7703.46.camel@charm-linux>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This commit is contained in:
Ingo Molnar 2009-03-22 18:41:59 +01:00
parent cfb180f3e7
commit fe9f57f250
1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -24,26 +24,31 @@ int trace_define_field(struct ftrace_event_call *call, char *type,
{
struct ftrace_event_field *field;
field = kmalloc(sizeof(*field), GFP_KERNEL);
field = kzalloc(sizeof(*field), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!field)
goto err;
field->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!field->name)
goto err;
field->type = kstrdup(type, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!field->type)
goto err;
field->offset = offset;
field->size = size;
list_add(&field->link, &call->fields);
return 0;
err:
if (field) {
kfree(field->name);
kfree(field->type);
}
kfree(field);
return -ENOMEM;
}