Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754027Ab3DKGzK (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:55:10 -0400 Received: from LGEMRELSE6Q.lge.com ([156.147.1.121]:45830 "EHLO LGEMRELSE6Q.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753050Ab3DKGzI (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:55:08 -0400 X-AuditID: 9c930179-b7b2aae000000518-14-51665e4850d4 From: Namhyung Kim To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Namhyung Kim Subject: [PATCH 1/2] tracing: Fix possible NULL pointer dereferences Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:55:01 +0900 Message-Id: <1365663302-2170-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.11.7 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3625 Lines: 106 From: Namhyung Kim Currently set_ftrace_pid and set_graph_function files use seq_lseek for their fops. However seq_open() is called only for FMODE_READ in the fops->open() so that if an user tries to seek one of those file when she open it for writing, it sees NULL seq_file and then panic. It can be easily reproduced with following command: $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing $ echo 1234 | sudo tee -a set_ftrace_pid In this example, GNU coreutils' tee opens the file with fopen(, "a") and then the fopen() internally calls lseek(). Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim --- include/linux/ftrace.h | 2 +- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 10 +++++----- kernel/trace/trace_stack.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h index 832422d706f4..c7687d8c0b30 100644 --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h @@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ ssize_t ftrace_filter_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos); ssize_t ftrace_notrace_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos); -loff_t ftrace_regex_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence); +loff_t ftrace_filter_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence); int ftrace_regex_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file); void __init diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index 03953fbd1b2a..be2bcb7ab2f7 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -2688,7 +2688,7 @@ ftrace_notrace_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) } loff_t -ftrace_regex_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence) +ftrace_filter_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence) { loff_t ret; @@ -3613,7 +3613,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_filter_fops = { .open = ftrace_filter_open, .read = seq_read, .write = ftrace_filter_write, - .llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek, + .llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek, .release = ftrace_regex_release, }; @@ -3621,7 +3621,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_notrace_fops = { .open = ftrace_notrace_open, .read = seq_read, .write = ftrace_notrace_write, - .llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek, + .llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek, .release = ftrace_regex_release, }; @@ -3826,8 +3826,8 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_graph_fops = { .open = ftrace_graph_open, .read = seq_read, .write = ftrace_graph_write, + .llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek, .release = ftrace_graph_release, - .llseek = seq_lseek, }; #endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER */ @@ -4481,7 +4481,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_pid_fops = { .open = ftrace_pid_open, .write = ftrace_pid_write, .read = seq_read, - .llseek = seq_lseek, + .llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek, .release = ftrace_pid_release, }; diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c index 8c3f37e2dc43..b20428c5efe2 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ static const struct file_operations stack_trace_filter_fops = { .open = stack_trace_filter_open, .read = seq_read, .write = ftrace_filter_write, - .llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek, + .llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek, .release = ftrace_regex_release, }; -- 1.7.11.7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/