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kprobes: initialize before using a hlist
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commit d496aab upstream.

Commit ef53d9c ("kprobes: improve kretprobe scalability with hashed
locking") introduced a bug where we can potentially leak
kretprobe_instances since we initialize a hlist head after having used
it.

Initialize the hlist head before using it.

Reported by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Srinivasa D S <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli authored and gregkh committed Jan 26, 2012
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion kernel/kprobes.c
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Expand Up @@ -1077,6 +1077,7 @@ void __kprobes kprobe_flush_task(struct task_struct *tk)
/* Early boot. kretprobe_table_locks not yet initialized. */
return;

INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&empty_rp);
hash = hash_ptr(tk, KPROBE_HASH_BITS);
head = &kretprobe_inst_table[hash];
kretprobe_table_lock(hash, &flags);
Expand All @@ -1085,7 +1086,6 @@ void __kprobes kprobe_flush_task(struct task_struct *tk)
recycle_rp_inst(ri, &empty_rp);
}
kretprobe_table_unlock(hash, &flags);
INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&empty_rp);
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(ri, node, tmp, &empty_rp, hlist) {
hlist_del(&ri->hlist);
kfree(ri);
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