[PATCH 2/2] ftrace: Check for successful allocation of hash

Naveen N. Rao naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Jul 5 00:34:42 AEST 2019


In register_ftrace_function_probe(), we are not checking the return
value of alloc_and_copy_ftrace_hash(). The subsequent call to
ftrace_match_records() may end up dereferencing the same. Add a check to
ensure this doesn't happen.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 0791eafb693d..0d5f7d4a4936 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -4328,6 +4328,11 @@ register_ftrace_function_probe(char *glob, struct trace_array *tr,
 	old_hash = *orig_hash;
 	hash = alloc_and_copy_ftrace_hash(FTRACE_HASH_DEFAULT_BITS, old_hash);
 
+	if (!hash) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	ret = ftrace_match_records(hash, glob, strlen(glob));
 
 	/* Nothing found? */
-- 
2.22.0



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