[lttng-dev] [PATCH lttng-tools v3] Fix: use newly created event filter for condition check

Jérémie Galarneau jeremie.galarneau at efficios.com
Wed Sep 25 12:41:41 EDT 2019


Merged in master and stable-2.11.

Backported to stable-2.10, and stable-2.9.

Thanks!
Jérémie

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:24:17AM -0400, Jonathan Rajotte wrote:
> The following commit introduced a regression while
> fixing the filter and filter_expression ownership.
> 
> commit b0a23296344e57bd2e48e62ec2d7e0d8a38661bb
> Author: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau at efficios.com>
> Date:   Sat Jan 12 14:53:56 2019 -0500
> 
>     Fix: leak of filter bytecode and expression on agent event re-enable
> 
>     The agent subsystem does not properly assume the clean-up of an
>     event's filter bytecode and expression when a previously disabled
>     event is re-enabled.
> 
>     This change ensures that the ownership of both the filter bytecode
>     and expression is assumed by the agent subsystem and discarded
>     when a matching event is found.
> 
>     Steps to reproduce the leak:
>     $ lttng create
>     $ lttng enable-event --python allo --filter 'a[42] == 241'
>     $ lttng disable-event --python allo
>     $ lttng enable-event --python allo --filter 'a[42] == 241'
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau at efficios.com>
> 
> Setting the "filter" object to NULL prevents the call to
> add_filter_app_ctx when needed.
> 
> We use the filter from the newly created event to
> perform the check and the call to add_filter_app_ctx.
> 
> Fixes coverity #1399733
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Rajotte <jonathan.rajotte-julien at efficios.com>
> ---
>  src/bin/lttng-sessiond/event.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/event.c b/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/event.c
> index f32db4429..a8b7646da 100644
> --- a/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/event.c
> +++ b/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/event.c
> @@ -513,8 +513,9 @@ int event_agent_enable(struct ltt_ust_session *usess,
>  		created = 1;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (created && filter) {
> -		ret = add_filter_app_ctx(filter, filter_expression, agt);
> +	if (created && aevent->filter) {
> +		ret = add_filter_app_ctx(
> +				aevent->filter, aevent->filter_expression, agt);
>  		if (ret != LTTNG_OK) {
>  			goto error;
>  		}
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 


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