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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-12-20 11:41:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-12-20 11:41:17 -0800
commita205b082189bf914959a667a5c83ea145bba3fb5 (patch)
tree8e4a05c7eebe9039136d2880e64dc782b73a1c1a /drivers
parent455ba0c0b7e1d2c72a45808115ef35512e3ae7b0 (diff)
parent913050b91eb94f194392dd797b1ff3779f606ac0 (diff)
Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/oprofile/oprofile_files.c7
-rw-r--r--drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c11
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/oprofile_files.c b/drivers/oprofile/oprofile_files.c
index 89f63456646..84a208dbed9 100644
--- a/drivers/oprofile/oprofile_files.c
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/oprofile_files.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static ssize_t timeout_write(struct file *file, char const __user *buf,
return -EINVAL;
retval = oprofilefs_ulong_from_user(&val, buf, count);
- if (retval)
+ if (retval <= 0)
return retval;
retval = oprofile_set_timeout(val);
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static ssize_t depth_write(struct file *file, char const __user *buf, size_t cou
return -EINVAL;
retval = oprofilefs_ulong_from_user(&val, buf, count);
- if (retval)
+ if (retval <= 0)
return retval;
retval = oprofile_set_ulong(&oprofile_backtrace_depth, val);
@@ -141,9 +141,10 @@ static ssize_t enable_write(struct file *file, char const __user *buf, size_t co
return -EINVAL;
retval = oprofilefs_ulong_from_user(&val, buf, count);
- if (retval)
+ if (retval <= 0)
return retval;
+ retval = 0;
if (val)
retval = oprofile_start();
else
diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c b/drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c
index d0de6cc2d7a..2f0aa0f700e 100644
--- a/drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c
@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@ ssize_t oprofilefs_ulong_to_user(unsigned long val, char __user *buf, size_t cou
}
+/*
+ * Note: If oprofilefs_ulong_from_user() returns 0, then *val remains
+ * unchanged and might be uninitialized. This follows write syscall
+ * implementation when count is zero: "If count is zero ... [and if]
+ * no errors are detected, 0 will be returned without causing any
+ * other effect." (man 2 write)
+ */
int oprofilefs_ulong_from_user(unsigned long *val, char const __user *buf, size_t count)
{
char tmpbuf[TMPBUFSIZE];
@@ -79,7 +86,7 @@ int oprofilefs_ulong_from_user(unsigned long *val, char const __user *buf, size_
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&oprofilefs_lock, flags);
*val = simple_strtoul(tmpbuf, NULL, 0);
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&oprofilefs_lock, flags);
- return 0;
+ return count;
}
@@ -99,7 +106,7 @@ static ssize_t ulong_write_file(struct file *file, char const __user *buf, size_
return -EINVAL;
retval = oprofilefs_ulong_from_user(&value, buf, count);
- if (retval)
+ if (retval <= 0)
return retval;
retval = oprofile_set_ulong(file->private_data, value);