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authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2025-01-03 16:30:38 +0900
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2025-01-10 23:01:22 +0900
commit45c9c4101d3d2fdfa00852274bbebba65fcc3cf2 (patch)
tree20afa40b07fafc0f717dc245db31b58ccb2f2ac1 /tools/perf/scripts/python/call-graph-from-postgresql.py
parent5963913bb57f15f198361bc7f1389c756b98f25f (diff)
genksyms: fix memory leak when the same symbol is added from source
When a symbol that is already registered is added again, __add_symbol() returns without freeing the symbol definition, making it unreachable. The following test cases demonstrate different memory leak points. [Test Case 1] Forward declaration with exactly the same definition $ cat foo.c #include <linux/export.h> void foo(void); void foo(void) {} EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); [Test Case 2] Forward declaration with a different definition (e.g. attribute) $ cat foo.c #include <linux/export.h> void foo(void); __attribute__((__section__(".ref.text"))) void foo(void) {} EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); [Test Case 3] Preserving an overridden symbol (compile with KBUILD_PRESERVE=1) $ cat foo.c #include <linux/export.h> void foo(void); void foo(void) { } EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); $ cat foo.symref override foo void foo ( int ) The memory leaks in Test Case 1 and 2 have existed since the introduction of genksyms into the kernel tree. [1] The memory leak in Test Case 3 was introduced by commit 5dae9a550a74 ("genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes"). When multiple init_declarators are reduced to an init_declarator_list, the decl_spec must be duplicated. Otherwise, the following Test Case 4 would result in a double-free bug. [Test Case 4] $ cat foo.c #include <linux/export.h> extern int foo, bar; int foo, bar; EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); In this case, 'foo' and 'bar' share the same decl_spec, 'int'. It must be unshared before being passed to add_symbol(). [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=46bd1da672d66ccd8a639d3c1f8a166048cca608 Fixes: 5dae9a550a74 ("genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes") Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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