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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

             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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