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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2009-07-07 13:54:08 +0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-07-10 11:59:42 +0200
commit011ed56853e07e30653d6f1bfddc56b396218664 (patch)
treea172911c83f2a0f9ae23a5d160860827929d60f9 /kernel/trace
parent92cf9f8f7e89c6bdbb1a724f879b8b18fc0dfe0f (diff)
ksym_tracer: NIL-terminate user input filter
Make sure the user input string is NULL-terminated. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <4A52E300.7020601@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c b/kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c
index 72fcb46c39c..8cbed5a6286 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c
@@ -264,11 +264,7 @@ static ssize_t ksym_trace_filter_write(struct file *file,
unsigned long ksym_addr = 0;
int ret, op, changed = 0;
- /* Ignore echo "" > ksym_trace_filter */
- if (count == 0)
- return 0;
-
- input_string = kzalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
+ input_string = kzalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!input_string)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -276,6 +272,7 @@ static ssize_t ksym_trace_filter_write(struct file *file,
kfree(input_string);
return -EFAULT;
}
+ input_string[count] = '\0';
ret = op = parse_ksym_trace_str(input_string, &ksymname, &ksym_addr);
if (ret < 0) {