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| author | Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> | 2010-07-28 01:18:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2010-08-13 15:23:16 -0400 |
| commit | 1aa54bca6ee0d07ebcafb8ca8074b624d80724aa (patch) | |
| tree | 815f3c1d184b61958ee48eb868ed28b1e5aab278 /kernel | |
| parent | 2a37a3df57c44e947271758a1aa4bea7bff9feab (diff) | |
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.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 086d3631680..88b42d14d32 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) |