linux-kernel - [tip:tracing/filters] tracing/filters: disallow integer values for string filters and vice versa

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Message-ID: <tip-9f58a159d022c8f2533a27708aa267adf4f0e3ce@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:28:04 GMT
From:	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	fweisbec@...il.com, tzanussi@...il.com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: [tip:tracing/filters] tracing/filters: disallow integer values for string filters and vice versa

Commit-ID:  9f58a159d022c8f2533a27708aa267adf4f0e3ce
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/9f58a159d022c8f2533a27708aa267adf4f0e3ce
Author:     Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:14:42 -0500
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:26:52 +0100

tracing/filters: disallow integer values for string filters and vice versa

Impact: fix filter use boundary condition / crash

Make sure filters for string fields don't use integer values and vice
versa.  Getting it wrong can crash the system or produce bogus
results.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237878882.8339.61.camel@...rm-linux>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>


---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
index 9fca8bb..026be41 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -237,9 +237,14 @@ int filter_add_pred(struct ftrace_event_call *call, struct filter_pred *pred)
 	pred->offset = field->offset;
 
 	if (is_string_field(field->type)) {
+		if (!pred->str_val)
+			return -EINVAL;
 		pred->fn = filter_pred_string;
 		pred->str_len = field->size;
 		return __filter_add_pred(call, pred);
+	} else {
+		if (pred->str_val)
+			return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	switch (field->size) {
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