CVE-2017-18595

A flaw was found in the allocate_trace_buffer in kernel/trace/trace.c in the debug subsystem, when failure to allocate a dynamic percpu area, a resource cleanup is called. The pointer (buf->buffer) still holds the address and is not set to NULL, which can cause a use-after-free problem, leading to a dangling pointer issue.

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