From: "Du, Changbin" <changbin.du@intel.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: changbin.du@intel.com, jolsa@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org,
mingo@redhat.com, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tracing: detect the string termination character when parsing user input string
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:01:20 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180110030119.sl6odftbzjdu3dop@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180109175434.77163e52@vmware.local.home>
hi Rostedt,
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:54:34PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 17:55:46 +0800
> changbin.du@intel.com wrote:
>
> > From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
> >
> > The usersapce can give a '\0' terminated C string or even has '\0' at the
> > middle of input buffer. We need handle both these two cases correctly.
>
> What do you define as correctly. Because I'm not seeing it.
>
Soory I don't fully understand your question. What I meant is want to get clear that
how will tracing parser below strings.
"", " ", "\0", " \0 ", "aa\0bb"
The parser may only recognize certain formats, but whatever the behaviour should
be clear and coherent for all tracing interfaces.
> >
> > Before this change, trace_get_user() will return a parsed string "\0" in
> > below case. It is not expected (expects it skip all inputs) and cause the
> > caller failed.
> >
> > open("/sys/kernel/debug/tracing//set_ftrace_pid", O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC) = 3
> > write(3, " \0", 2) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
>
> That looks more like a feature and not a bug.
>
I point this out because I think the parser should take this as an emptry string
per the comments of trace_get_user().
/*
* trace_get_user - reads the user input string separated by space
* (matched by isspace(ch))
*
* For each string found the 'struct trace_parser' is updated,
* and the function returns.
*
* Returns number of bytes read.
*
* See kernel/trace/trace.h for 'struct trace_parser' details.
*/
> >
> > This patch try to make the parser '\0' aware to fix such issue.
>
> Why?
>
> >
> > Since the caller expects trace_get_user() to parse whole input buffer, so
> > this patch treat '\0' as a separator as whitespace.
>
> It looks more like we are trying to fix a userspace bug via the kernel.
>
> I'm not liking this. So NACK.
>
> -- Steve
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
> > ---
> > kernel/trace/trace.c | 17 +++++++++++------
> > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > index 2a8d8a2..18526a1 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > @@ -1194,9 +1194,14 @@ void trace_parser_put(struct trace_parser *parser)
> > parser->buffer = NULL;
> > }
> >
> > +static inline bool is_space_or_zero(char ch)
> > +{
> > + return isspace(ch) || !ch;
> > +}
> > +
> > /*
> > - * trace_get_user - reads the user input string separated by space
> > - * (matched by isspace(ch))
> > + * trace_get_user - reads the user input string separated by space or '\0'
> > + * (matched by is_space_or_zero(ch))
> > *
> > * For each string found the 'struct trace_parser' is updated,
> > * and the function returns.
> > @@ -1228,7 +1233,7 @@ int trace_get_user(struct trace_parser *parser, const char __user *ubuf,
> > */
> > if (!parser->cont) {
> > /* skip white space */
> > - while (cnt && isspace(ch)) {
> > + while (cnt && is_space_or_zero(ch)) {
> > ret = get_user(ch, ubuf++);
> > if (ret)
> > goto out;
> > @@ -1237,7 +1242,7 @@ int trace_get_user(struct trace_parser *parser, const char __user *ubuf,
> > }
> >
> > /* only spaces were written */
> > - if (isspace(ch)) {
> > + if (is_space_or_zero(ch)) {
> > *ppos += read;
> > ret = read;
> > goto out;
> > @@ -1247,7 +1252,7 @@ int trace_get_user(struct trace_parser *parser, const char __user *ubuf,
> > }
> >
> > /* read the non-space input */
> > - while (cnt && !isspace(ch)) {
> > + while (cnt && !is_space_or_zero(ch)) {
> > if (parser->idx < parser->size - 1)
> > parser->buffer[parser->idx++] = ch;
> > else {
> > @@ -1262,7 +1267,7 @@ int trace_get_user(struct trace_parser *parser, const char __user *ubuf,
> > }
> >
> > /* We either got finished input or we have to wait for another call. */
> > - if (isspace(ch)) {
> > + if (is_space_or_zero(ch)) {
> > parser->buffer[parser->idx] = 0;
> > parser->cont = false;
> > } else if (parser->idx < parser->size - 1) {
>
--
Thanks,
Changbin Du
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-10 3:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-09 9:55 [PATCH 0/3] tracing: Fix the parser when processing strings w/ or w/o terminated '\0' changbin.du
2018-01-09 9:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] tracing: detect the string termination character when parsing user input string changbin.du
2018-01-09 22:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-01-10 3:01 ` Du, Changbin [this message]
2018-01-10 4:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-01-09 9:55 ` [PATCH 2/3] tracing: make sure the parsed string always terminates with '\0' changbin.du
2018-01-09 23:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-01-10 3:02 ` Du, Changbin
2018-01-10 4:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-01-15 10:49 ` Du, Changbin
2018-01-09 9:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] tracing: don't set parser->cont if it has reached the end of input buffer changbin.du
2018-01-09 23:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-01-10 3:18 ` Du, Changbin
2018-01-10 4:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-01-12 4:05 ` Du, Changbin
2018-01-12 15:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-01-14 5:43 ` Du, Changbin
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