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author | Elazar Leibovich <elazar@lightbitslabs.com> | 2018-12-31 13:58:37 +0200 |
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committer | Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2019-05-08 12:15:12 -0400 |
commit | cbe08bcbbe787315c425dde284dcb715cfbf3f39 (patch) | |
tree | 963741ea74c1e6fef3f58604ed5ed7b8745303b4 /lib/fdt_wip.c | |
parent | 6fc2171c5c03672bae71d04a0f5fa88cc9c3b4e2 (diff) | |
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tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file
When reading only part of the id file, the ppos isn't tracked correctly.
This is taken care by simple_read_from_buffer.
Reading a single byte, and then the next byte would result EOF.
While this seems like not a big deal, this breaks abstractions that
reads information from files unbuffered. See for example
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29399
This code was mentioned as problematic in
commit cd458ba9d5a5
("tracing: Do not (ab)use trace_seq in event_id_read()")
An example C code that show this bug is:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
if (argc < 2)
return 1;
int fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
char c;
read(fd, &c, 1);
printf("First %c\n", c);
read(fd, &c, 1);
printf("Second %c\n", c);
}
Then run with, e.g.
sudo ./a.out /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/tcp/tcp_set_state/id
You'll notice you're getting the first character twice, instead of the
first two characters in the id file.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181231115837.4932-1-elazar@lightbitslabs.com
Cc: Orit Wasserman <orit.was@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 23725aeeab10b ("ftrace: provide an id file for each event")
Signed-off-by: Elazar Leibovich <elazar@lightbitslabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/fdt_wip.c')
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