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authorMarcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>2010-07-28 01:18:01 +0200
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2010-08-13 15:23:16 -0400
commit1aa54bca6ee0d07ebcafb8ca8074b624d80724aa (patch)
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tracing: Sanitize value returned from write(trace_marker, "...", len)
When userspace code writes non-new-line-terminated string to trace_marker file, write handler appends new-line and returns number of bytes written to trace buffer, so write(fd, "abc", 3) will return 4 That's unexpected and unfortunately it confuses glibc's fprintf function. Example: int main() { fprintf(stderr, "abc"); return 0; } $ gcc test.c -o test $ echo mmiotrace > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer $ ./test 2>/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_marker results in infinite loop: write(fd, "abc", 3) = 4 write(fd, "", 1) = 0 write(fd, "", 1) = 0 write(fd, "", 1) = 0 write(fd, "", 1) = 0 write(fd, "", 1) = 0 write(fd, "", 1) = 0 write(fd, "", 1) = 0 (...) ...and kernel trace buffer full of empty markers. Fix it by sanitizing write return value. Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100727231801.GB2826@joi.lan> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 086d36316805..88b42d14d32d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3498,6 +3498,7 @@ tracing_mark_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
size_t cnt, loff_t *fpos)
{
char *buf;
+ size_t written;
if (tracing_disabled)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -3519,11 +3520,15 @@ tracing_mark_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
} else
buf[cnt] = '\0';
- cnt = mark_printk("%s", buf);
+ written = mark_printk("%s", buf);
kfree(buf);
- *fpos += cnt;
+ *fpos += written;
- return cnt;
+ /* don't tell userspace we wrote more - it might confuse them */
+ if (written > cnt)
+ written = cnt;
+
+ return written;
}
static int tracing_clock_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)