linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Verify target file before registering a uprobe event

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Date:	Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:57:45 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@...il.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Verify target file before registering a
 uprobe event

Jovi,

As Namhyung pointed out. Can you fix the below and resend.


On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 17:50 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@...il.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@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.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)) {

Bad whitespace before 'if'.

Also, S_ISDIR() implies S_ISREG(), you can remove the "S_ISDIR()" check.

Thanks,

-- Steve

> +		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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