[PATCH] perf: fix temporary file ownership check

[PATCH] perf: fix temporary file ownership check

[Vasiliy Kulikov]

A file in /tmp/ might be a symlink, so lstat() should be used
instead of stat().

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/symbol.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index a8b5371..5db39f6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ int dso__load(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, symbol_filter_t filter)
 	if (strncmp(dso->name, "/tmp/perf-", 10) == 0) {
 		struct stat st;
 
-		if (stat(dso->name, &st) < 0)
+		if (lstat(dso->name, &st) < 0)
 			return -1;
 
 		if (st.st_uid && (st.st_uid != geteuid())) {
-- 
1.7.0.4

Re: [PATCH] perf: fix temporary file ownership check

[Pekka Enberg]

On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 00:55 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> A file in /tmp/ might be a symlink, so lstat() should be used
> instead of stat().
> 
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

> ---
>  tools/perf/util/symbol.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> index a8b5371..5db39f6 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> @@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ int dso__load(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, symbol_filter_t filter)
>  	if (strncmp(dso->name, "/tmp/perf-", 10) == 0) {
>  		struct stat st;
>  
> -		if (stat(dso->name, &st) < 0)
> +		if (lstat(dso->name, &st) < 0)
>  			return -1;
>  
>  		if (st.st_uid && (st.st_uid != geteuid())) {

[tip:perf/core] perf: fix temporary file ownership check

[tip-bot for Vasiliy Kulikov]

Commit-ID:  e9b52ef2228cd0bed7a4465c693a39489e2c338d
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/e9b52ef2228cd0bed7a4465c693a39489e2c338d
Author:     Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:55:37 +0400
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:28:17 -0300

perf: fix temporary file ownership check

A file in /tmp/ might be a symlink, so lstat() should be used instead of
stat().

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110811205537.GA22864@albatros
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/symbol.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index e142c21..469c026 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ int dso__load(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, symbol_filter_t filter)
 	if (strncmp(dso->name, "/tmp/perf-", 10) == 0) {
 		struct stat st;
 
-		if (stat(dso->name, &st) < 0)
+		if (lstat(dso->name, &st) < 0)
 			return -1;
 
 		if (st.st_uid && (st.st_uid != geteuid())) {