tracing: Fix return while holding a lock in register_tracer()
commit d39cdd2036a6 ("tracing: Make tracer_flags use the right set_flag
callback") introduces a potential mutex deadlock issue, as it forgets to
free the mutex when allocaing the tracer_flags gets fail.
The issue was found by Dan Carpenter through Smatch static code check tool.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457958941-30265-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com
Fixes: d39cdd2036a6 ("tracing: Make tracer_flags use the right set_flag callback")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index b401a18..0ae4604 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1256,8 +1256,10 @@
if (!type->flags) {
/*allocate a dummy tracer_flags*/
type->flags = kmalloc(sizeof(*type->flags), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!type->flags)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ if (!type->flags) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
+ }
type->flags->val = 0;
type->flags->opts = dummy_tracer_opt;
} else
