[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "tools lib traceevent: Do not reassign parg after collapse_tree()" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue May 24 17:53:06 UTC 2016


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    tools lib traceevent: Do not reassign parg after collapse_tree()

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt11.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 5ceefa00971616b994a188ae429c5039142ccd69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 15:09:36 -0400
Subject: tools lib traceevent: Do not reassign parg after collapse_tree()

commit 106b816cb46ebd87408b4ed99a2e16203114daa6 upstream.

At the end of process_filter(), collapse_tree() was changed to update
the parg parameter, but the reassignment after the call wasn't removed.

What happens is that the "current_op" gets modified and freed and parg
is assigned to the new allocated argument. But after the call to
collapse_tree(), parg is assigned again to the just freed "current_op",
and this causes the tool to crash.

The current_op variable must also be assigned to NULL in case of error,
otherwise it will cause it to be free()ed twice.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
Fixes: 42d6194d133c ("tools lib traceevent: Refactor process_filter()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160511150936.678c18a1@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c
index 0144b3d..88cccea 100644
--- a/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c
+++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c
@@ -1164,11 +1164,11 @@ process_filter(struct event_format *event, struct filter_arg **parg,
 		current_op = current_exp;

 	ret = collapse_tree(current_op, parg, error_str);
+	/* collapse_tree() may free current_op, and updates parg accordingly */
+	current_op = NULL;
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto fail;

-	*parg = current_op;
-
 	free(token);
 	return 0;

--
2.7.4





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