linux-kernel - [PATCH] tracing: Fix return value of trace_pid

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Message-Id: <20220503050546.288911-1-vvghjk1234@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue,  3 May 2022 14:05:46 +0900
From:   Wonhyuk Yang <vvghjk1234@...il.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc:     Wonhyuk Yang <vvghjk1234@...il.com>,
        Baik Song An <bsahn@...i.re.kr>,
        Hong Yeon Kim <kimhy@...i.re.kr>,
        Taeung Song <taeung@...llinux.co.kr>, linuxgeek@...uxgeek.io,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Fix return value of trace_pid_write()

Setting set_event_pid with trailing whitespace lead to endless write
system calls like below.

    $ strace echo "123 " > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event_pid
    execve("/usr/bin/echo", ["echo", "123 "], ...) = 0
    ...
    write(1, "123 \n", 5)                   = 4
    write(1, "\n", 1)                       = 0
    write(1, "\n", 1)                       = 0
    write(1, "\n", 1)                       = 0
    write(1, "\n", 1)                       = 0
    write(1, "\n", 1)                       = 0
    ....

This is because, the result of trace_get_user's are not returned when it
read at least one pid. To fix it, update read variable even if
parser->idx == 0.

The result of applied patch is below.

    $ strace echo "123 " > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event_pid
    execve("/usr/bin/echo", ["echo", "123 "], ...) = 0
    ...
    write(1, "123 \n", 5)                   = 5
    close(1)                                = 0

Cc: Baik Song An <bsahn@...i.re.kr>
Cc: Hong Yeon Kim <kimhy@...i.re.kr>
Cc: Taeung Song <taeung@...llinux.co.kr>
Cc: linuxgeek@...uxgeek.io
Signed-off-by: Wonhyuk Yang <vvghjk1234@...il.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 124f1897fd56..a8bef684e8a3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -721,13 +721,16 @@ int trace_pid_write(struct trace_pid_list *filtered_pids,
 		pos = 0;
 
 		ret = trace_get_user(&parser, ubuf, cnt, &pos);
-		if (ret < 0 || !trace_parser_loaded(&parser))
+		if (ret < 0)
 			break;
 
 		read += ret;
 		ubuf += ret;
 		cnt -= ret;
 
+		if (!trace_parser_loaded(&parser))
+			break;
+
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 		if (kstrtoul(parser.buffer, 0, &val))
 			break;
@@ -753,7 +756,6 @@ int trace_pid_write(struct trace_pid_list *filtered_pids,
 	if (!nr_pids) {
 		/* Cleared the list of pids */
 		trace_pid_list_free(pid_list);
-		read = ret;
 		pid_list = NULL;
 	}
 
-- 
2.30.2