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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Verify target file before registering a uprobe event
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On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 13:30 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi, Steve.
>
> On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:50:38 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > From: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
> >
> > Without this patch, we can register a uprobe event for a directory.
> > Enabling such a uprobe event would fail anyway .
> >
> > Example:
> > $ echo 'p /bin:0x4245c0' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events
> >
> > However dirctories cannot be valid targets for uprobe.
> > Hence verify if the target is a regular file during the probe
> > registration.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
> > Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > ---
> > kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 6 +++++-
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
> > index 03003cd..0815f25 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
> > @@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ static int create_trace_uprobe(int argc, char **argv)
> > goto fail_address_parse;
> >
> > inode = igrab(path.dentry->d_inode);
> > + if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {
>
> Doesn't !S_ISREG() include S_ISDIR() case too?

You're correct. Although I'm sure gcc should be smart enough to optimize
that out.

>
> Anyway I can see an additional whitespace in front of the "if".

Yep, I forgot to run checkpatch on this. OK, this bug isn't that big of
a deal, so I'll take this patch out and put it into the 3.9 queue.

Thanks,

-- Steve

>
> Thanks,
> Namhyung
>
>
> > + ret = -EINVAL;
> > + goto fail_address_parse;
> > + }
> >
> > argc -= 2;
> > argv += 2;
> > @@ -356,7 +360,7 @@ fail_address_parse:
> > if (inode)
> > iput(inode);
> >
> > - pr_info("Failed to parse address.\n");
> > + pr_info("Failed to parse address or file.\n");
> >
> > return ret;
> > }




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