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| author | Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2009-04-11 09:52:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-12 11:59:27 +0200 |
| commit | 8433a40eb7f2c4883ad57f9900f63e4d59240eb7 (patch) | |
| tree | 7fab36945d0266ca00a9a13c2061cc2a0a2ae5dc /kernel/trace | |
| parent | ftrace: Output REC->var instead of __entry->var for trace format (diff) | |
| download | linux-8433a40eb7f2c4883ad57f9900f63e4d59240eb7.tar.xz linux-8433a40eb7f2c4883ad57f9900f63e4d59240eb7.zip | |
tracing/filters: NIL-terminate user input filter
Make sure messages from user space are NIL-terminated strings,
otherwise we could dump random memory while reading filter file.
Try this:
# echo 'parent_comm ==' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter
# cat events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter
parent_comm == �
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49E04C32.6060508@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c index 64ec4d278ffb..054bc1802bcd 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c @@ -503,6 +503,7 @@ event_filter_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt, if (copy_from_user(&buf, ubuf, cnt)) return -EFAULT; + buf[cnt] = '\0'; pred = kzalloc(sizeof(*pred), GFP_KERNEL); if (!pred) @@ -569,6 +570,7 @@ subsystem_filter_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt, if (copy_from_user(&buf, ubuf, cnt)) return -EFAULT; + buf[cnt] = '\0'; pred = kzalloc(sizeof(*pred), GFP_KERNEL); if (!pred) |