From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" rostedt@goodmis.org

The following commands will cause a memory leak:

# cd /sys/kernel/tracing # mkdir instances/foo # echo schedule > instance/foo/set_ftrace_filter # rmdir instances/foo

The reason is that the hashes that hold the filters to set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace are not freed if they contain any data on the instance and the instance is removed.

Found by kmemleak detector.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 591dffdade9f ("ftrace: Allow for function tracing instance to filter functions") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index 77734451cb05..e23eb9fc77aa 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -5460,6 +5460,7 @@ void ftrace_destroy_filter_files(struct ftrace_ops *ops) if (ops->flags & FTRACE_OPS_FL_ENABLED) ftrace_shutdown(ops, 0); ops->flags |= FTRACE_OPS_FL_DELETED; + ftrace_free_filter(ops); mutex_unlock(&ftrace_lock); }