This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tracing: Fix leaks of filter preds

to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tracing-fix-leaks-of-filter-preds.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 60705c89460fdc7227f2d153b68b3f34814738a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 15:40:48 -0400
Subject: tracing: Fix leaks of filter preds

From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <[email protected]>

commit 60705c89460fdc7227f2d153b68b3f34814738a4 upstream.

Special preds are created when folding a series of preds that
can be done in serial. These are allocated in an ops field of
the pred structure. But they were never freed, causing memory
leaks.

This was discovered using the kmemleak checker:

unreferenced object 0xffff8800797fd5e0 (size 32):
  comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294690605 (age 104.608s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 01 00 03 00 05 00 07 00 09 00 0b 00 0d 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff814b52af>] kmemleak_alloc+0x73/0x98
    [<ffffffff8111ff84>] kmemleak_alloc_recursive.constprop.42+0x16/0x18
    [<ffffffff81120e68>] __kmalloc+0xd7/0x125
    [<ffffffff810d47eb>] kcalloc.constprop.24+0x2d/0x2f
    [<ffffffff810d4896>] fold_pred_tree_cb+0xa9/0xf4
    [<ffffffff810d3781>] walk_pred_tree+0x47/0xcc
    [<ffffffff810d5030>] replace_preds.isra.20+0x6f8/0x72f
    [<ffffffff810d50b5>] create_filter+0x4e/0x8b
    [<ffffffff81b1c30d>] ftrace_test_event_filter+0x5a/0x155
    [<ffffffff8100028d>] do_one_initcall+0xa0/0x137
    [<ffffffff81afbedf>] kernel_init_freeable+0x14d/0x1dc
    [<ffffffff814b24b7>] kernel_init+0xe/0xdb
    [<ffffffff814d539c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -777,7 +777,11 @@ static int filter_set_pred(struct event_
 
 static void __free_preds(struct event_filter *filter)
 {
+       int i;
+
        if (filter->preds) {
+               for (i = 0; i < filter->n_preds; i++)
+                       kfree(filter->preds[i].ops);
                kfree(filter->preds);
                filter->preds = NULL;
        }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.4/tracing-fix-leaks-of-filter-preds.patch
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