Re: [PATCH] perf ftrace: Fix the buffer size in __write_tracing_file

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 03:34:57PM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 11:05:12AM +0800, Du, Changbin wrote:
> > Hi Olsa,
> > What about this fix now? Thanks!
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 05:26:56PM +0800, changbin.du@intel.com wrote:
> > > From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
> > > 
> > > The terminal character '\0' should take into account as size of the string
> > > buffer. Without this fix, the '--graph-funcs', '--nograph-funcs' and
> > > '--trace-funcs' options didn't work as expected when the <func> doesn't
> > > exist.
> > > 
> > > I didn't dive into kernel ftrace fops, but strace shows that if usersapce
> > > writes a non-terminated string, the kernel side will return success but
> > > no filter applied. After this fix in userspace, the kernel will return an
> > > error.
> > > 
> > > $ sudo ./perf ftrace -a --graph-depth 1 --graph-funcs abcdefg
> > >  0)   0.140 us    |  rcu_all_qs();
> > >  3)   0.304 us    |  mutex_unlock();
> > >  0)   0.153 us    |  find_vma();
> > >  3)   0.088 us    |  __fsnotify_parent();
> > >  0)   6.145 us    |  handle_mm_fault();
> > >  3)   0.089 us    |  fsnotify();
> > >  3)   0.161 us    |  __sb_end_write();
> > >  3)   0.710 us    |  SyS_close();
> > >  3)   7.848 us    |  exit_to_usermode_loop();
> > > 
> > > On above example, I specified function filter 'abcdefg' but all functions
> > > are enabled.
> 
> hum, haven't checked, but looks like the filter is not working at all now:
> 
> [root@krava perf]# ./perf ftrace -vv -a --graph-depth 1 --graph-funcs proc_sys_read
> write ' ' to tracing/set_ftrace_pid failed: Invalid argument
> [root@krava perf]# ./perf ftrace -vv -a --graph-depth 1 --graph-funcs SyS_read
> write ' ' to tracing/set_ftrace_pid failed: Invalid argument
> [root@krava perf]# ./perf ftrace -vv -a --graph-depth 1 --graph-funcs fsnotify
> write ' ' to tracing/set_ftrace_pid failed: Invalid argument

Hmm.. it seems writing a whitespace alone caused the failure.

The filter files are handled little bit different in that they process
the given string when it find a whitespace or at the close() if not.
But the thing is that it's gonna lose the return value if handled at
close().

Anyway adding a NUL character at the end won't make different IMHO
since it's not a whitespace.  And I think it needs a separate function
to set filters with a whitespace.  But this will change the program
behavior on invalid filter inputs.

Thanks,
Namhyung