linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/3] tracing: Fix parse_synth

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Message-Id: <15b1808e1466f378fcf206e61b57c802423f8319.1601490263.git.zanussi@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:40:51 -0500
From:   Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>
To:     rostedt@...dmis.org, axelrasmussen@...gle.com
Cc:     mhiramat@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] tracing: Fix parse_synth_field() error handling

synth_field_size() returns either a positive size or an error (zero or
a negative value). However, the existing code assumes the only error
value is 0. It doesn't handle negative error codes, as it assigns
directly to field->size (a size_t; unsigned), thereby interpreting the
error code as a valid size instead.

Do the test before assignment to field->size.

[ axelrasmussen@...gle.com: changelog addition, first paragraph above ]

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
index a9cd7793f7ea..fa8a99828f41 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
@@ -465,6 +465,7 @@ static struct synth_field *parse_synth_field(int argc, const char **argv,
 	struct synth_field *field;
 	const char *prefix = NULL, *field_type = argv[0], *field_name, *array;
 	int len, ret = 0;
+	ssize_t size;
 
 	if (field_type[0] == ';')
 		field_type++;
@@ -520,11 +521,12 @@ static struct synth_field *parse_synth_field(int argc, const char **argv,
 			field->type[len - 1] = '\0';
 	}
 
-	field->size = synth_field_size(field->type);
-	if (!field->size) {
+	size = synth_field_size(field->type);
+	if (size <= 0) {
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto free;
 	}
+	field->size = size;
 
 	if (synth_field_is_string(field->type))
 		field->is_string = true;
-- 
2.17.1