From: Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org
Fix to make the type of $comm "string". If we set the other type to $comm argument, it shows meaningless value or wrong data. Currently probe events allow us to set string array type (e.g. ":string[2]"), or other digit types like x8 on $comm. But since clearly $comm is just a string data, it should not be fetched by other types including array.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155723736241.9149.14582064184468574539.stgit@devnot...
Cc: Andreas Ziegler andreas.ziegler@fau.de Cc: Ingo Molnar mingo@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 533059281ee5 ("tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument fetching code") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org --- kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c index 4cc2d467d34c..e0d1d5353464 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c @@ -533,13 +533,14 @@ static int traceprobe_parse_probe_arg_body(char *arg, ssize_t *size, } } } - /* - * The default type of $comm should be "string", and it can't be - * dereferenced. - */ - if (!t && strcmp(arg, "$comm") == 0) + + /* Since $comm can not be dereferred, we can find $comm by strcmp */ + if (strcmp(arg, "$comm") == 0) { + /* The type of $comm must be "string", and not an array. */ + if (parg->count || (t && strcmp(t, "string"))) + return -EINVAL; parg->type = find_fetch_type("string"); - else + } else parg->type = find_fetch_type(t); if (!parg->type) { trace_probe_log_err(offset + (t ? (t - arg) : 0), BAD_TYPE);