tracing: Enforce passing in filter=NULL to create_filter()

There's some inconsistency with what to set the output parameter filterp
when passing to create_filter(..., struct event_filter **filterp).

Whatever filterp points to, should be NULL when calling this function. The
create_filter() calls create_filter_start() with a pointer to a local
"filter" variable that is set to NULL. The create_filter_start() has a
WARN_ON() if the passed in pointer isn't pointing to a value set to NULL.

Ideally, create_filter() should pass the filterp variable it received to
create_filter_start() and not hide it as with a local variable, this allowed
create_filter() to fail, and not update the passed in filter, and the caller
of create_filter() then tried to free filter, which was never initialized to
anything, causing memory corruption.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Fixes: 8076559 ("tracing: Rewrite filter logic to be simpler and faster")
Reported-by: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

Author: rostedt

kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c

@@ -1704,18 +1704,16 @@ static int create_filter(struct trace_event_call *call,
 			 struct event_filter **filterp)
 {
 	struct filter_parse_error *pe = NULL;
-	struct event_filter *filter = NULL;
 	int err;
 
-	err = create_filter_start(filter_string, set_str, &pe, &filter);
+	err = create_filter_start(filter_string, set_str, &pe, filterp);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	err = process_preds(call, filter_string, filter, pe);
+	err = process_preds(call, filter_string, *filterp, pe);
 	if (err && set_str)
-		append_filter_err(pe, filter);
+		append_filter_err(pe, *filterp);
 
-	*filterp = filter;
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -1739,32 +1737,30 @@ static int create_system_filter(struct trace_subsystem_dir *dir,
 				struct trace_array *tr,
 				char *filter_str, struct event_filter **filterp)
 {
-	struct event_filter *filter = NULL;
 	struct filter_parse_error *pe = NULL;
 	int err;
 
-	err = create_filter_start(filter_str, true, &pe, &filter);
+	err = create_filter_start(filter_str, true, &pe, filterp);
 	if (!err) {
 		err = process_system_preds(dir, tr, pe, filter_str);
 		if (!err) {
 			/* System filters just show a default message */
-			kfree(filter->filter_string);
-			filter->filter_string = NULL;
+			kfree((*filterp)->filter_string);
+			(*filterp)->filter_string = NULL;
 		} else {
-			append_filter_err(pe, filter);
+			append_filter_err(pe, *filterp);
 		}
 	}
 	create_filter_finish(pe);
 
-	*filterp = filter;
 	return err;
 }
 
 /* caller must hold event_mutex */
 int apply_event_filter(struct trace_event_file *file, char *filter_string)
 {
 	struct trace_event_call *call = file->event_call;
-	struct event_filter *filter;
+	struct event_filter *filter = NULL;
 	int err;
 
 	if (!strcmp(strstrip(filter_string), "0")) {
@@ -1817,7 +1813,7 @@ int apply_subsystem_event_filter(struct trace_subsystem_dir *dir,
 {
 	struct event_subsystem *system = dir->subsystem;
 	struct trace_array *tr = dir->tr;
-	struct event_filter *filter;
+	struct event_filter *filter = NULL;
 	int err = 0;
 
 	mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
@@ -2024,7 +2020,7 @@ int ftrace_profile_set_filter(struct perf_event *event, int event_id,
 			      char *filter_str)
 {
 	int err;
-	struct event_filter *filter;
+	struct event_filter *filter = NULL;
 	struct trace_event_call *call;
 
 	mutex_lock(&event_mutex);