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Steven Rostedt
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The variable "head" is allocated and initialized as a list before
allocating the first "item" for the list. If the allocation of "item"
fails, it frees "head" and then jumps to the label "free_now" which will
process head and free it.
This will cause a UAF of "head", and it doesn't need to free it before
jumping to the "free_now" label as that code will free it.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250610093348.33c5643a@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: a9d0aab5eb ("tracing: Fix regression of filter waiting a long time on RCU synchronization")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202506070424.lCiNreTI-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.