linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf: fix temporary file ownership check

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Date:	Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:17:43 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: fix temporary file ownership check

On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 00:55 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> A file in /tmp/ might be a symlink, so lstat() should be used
> instead of stat().
> 
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>

> ---
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> index a8b5371..5db39f6 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> @@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ int dso__load(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, symbol_filter_t filter)
>  	if (strncmp(dso->name, "/tmp/perf-", 10) == 0) {
>  		struct stat st;
>  
> -		if (stat(dso->name, &st) < 0)
> +		if (lstat(dso->name, &st) < 0)
>  			return -1;
>  
>  		if (st.st_uid && (st.st_uid != geteuid())) {


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