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Add reference count checking controlled by REFCNT_CHECKING ifdef. The reference count checking interposes an allocated pointer between the reference counted struct on a get and frees the pointer on a put. Accesses after a put cause faults and use after free, missed puts are caughts as leaks and double puts are double frees. This checking helped resolve a memory leak and use after free: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/CAP-5=fWZH20L4kv-BwVtGLwR=Em3AOOT+Q4QGivvQuYn5AsPRg@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexey Bayduraev <alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230407230405.2931830-4-irogers@google.com [ Extracted from a larger patch ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel
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