From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched: fix string comparison in features
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:44:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100911174400.GA13462@Krystal> (raw)
Incorrect handling of the following case:
INTERACTIVE
INTERACTIVE_SOMETHING_ELSE
The comparison only checks up to each element's length.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
---
kernel/sched.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6-lttng.git/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.git.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6-lttng.git/kernel/sched.c
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ sched_feat_write(struct file *filp, cons
{
char buf[64];
char *cmp = buf;
- int neg = 0;
+ int neg = 0, cmplen;
int i;
if (cnt > 63)
@@ -732,15 +732,24 @@ sched_feat_write(struct file *filp, cons
return -EFAULT;
buf[cnt] = 0;
+ for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
+ if (buf[i] == '\n' || buf[i] == ' ') {
+ buf[i] = 0;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
if (strncmp(buf, "NO_", 3) == 0) {
neg = 1;
cmp += 3;
}
+ cmplen = strlen(cmp);
for (i = 0; sched_feat_names[i]; i++) {
int len = strlen(sched_feat_names[i]);
+ if (cmplen != len)
+ continue;
if (strncmp(cmp, sched_feat_names[i], len) == 0) {
if (neg)
sysctl_sched_features &= ~(1UL << i);
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
next reply other threads:[~2010-09-11 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-11 17:44 Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2010-09-13 21:34 ` [PATCH] sched: fix string comparison in features Steven Rostedt
2010-09-13 21:40 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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