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/00000000000032a0c30569916870@google.com Fixes: 80765597 ("tracing: Rewrite filter logic to be simpler and faster") Reported-by: <syzbot+dadcc936587643d7f568@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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