Boot-time trigger registration can fail before the trigger-data cleanup
kthread exists. Deferring those frees until late init is fine, but the
post-boot fallback must still drain the deferred list if kthread
creation never succeeds.
Otherwise, boot-deferred nodes can accumulate on
trigger_data_free_list, later frees fall back to synchronously freeing
only the current object, and the older queued entries are leaked
forever.
To trigger this, add the following to the kernel command line:
trace_event=sched_switch trace_trigger=sched_switch.traceon,sched_switch.traceon
The second traceon trigger will fail and be freed. This triggers a NULL
pointer dereference and crashes the kernel.
Keep the deferred boot-time behavior, but when kthread creation fails,
drain the whole queued list synchronously. Do the same in the late-init
drain path so queued entries are not stranded there either.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324221326.1395799-3-atwellwea@gmail.com
Fixes: 61d445af0a ("tracing: Add bulk garbage collection of freeing event_trigger_data")
Signed-off-by: Wesley Atwell <atwellwea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
