tracing: Unregister field variable histograms when the command fails
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Unregister field variable histograms when the command fails
An action that names a field on another event needs that field as a
variable, so create_field_var_hist() registers a second hist trigger on
that event to provide it, and records it in
target_hist_data->field_var_hists[].
If a later part of the same command fails, create_actions() returns an
error and event_hist_trigger_parse() jumps to out_free. The write fails
with -EINVAL and sched_switch gets no trigger, but:
# echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs' >> \
events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
# echo 'my_synth u64 lat; int a; int b' >> synthetic_events
# echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:wakeup_lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0:\
onmatch(sched.sched_waking).my_synth($wakeup_lat,prio,nosuchfld)'\
>> events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
# cat events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
hist:keys=pid:vals=hitcount:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs:sort=hitcount:size=2048:clock=global [active]
hist:keys=pid:vals=hitcount:synthetic_prio=prio:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active]
The second histogram is the one created for 'prio'. It is still active and
still counting.
out_free reaches destroy_field_var_hists(), which frees the
field_var_hists[] entries, but never unregister_field_var_hists(), which is
what removes the triggers and runs only from event_hist_trigger_free(). The
entry is freed and the trigger is left with nothing tracking it.
Unregister the field variable histograms in out_free as well, and record
each one as soon as its trigger is registered rather than after the lookup
that follows it, so no exit can leave a registered trigger untracked. The
entry then belongs to field_var_hists[] and is released by
destroy_field_var_hists(), so freeing it on that exit would be a double
free.
- Source published
- 2 Nov 2026 16:06:41 UTC
- Source modified
- 3 Nov 2026 19:13:02 UTC
- Observed here
- 3 Nov 2026 21:57:16 UTC
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