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From: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>,
	Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>,
	Ivan Pravdin <ipravdin.official@gmail.com>,
	Crystal Wood <crwood@redhat.com>,
	Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
	Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>,
	Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>,
	linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list:Real-time Linux
	Analysis (RTLA) tools),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list:Real-time Linux Analysis
	(RTLA) tools),
	bpf@vger.kernel.org (open list:BPF
	[MISC]:Keyword:(?:\b|_)bpf(?:\b|_))
Subject: [PATCH v4 18/18] rtla/utils: Fix loop condition in PID validation
Date: Mon,  9 Mar 2026 16:46:31 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260309195040.1019085-19-wander@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260309195040.1019085-1-wander@redhat.com>

The procfs_is_workload_pid() function iterates through a directory
entry name to validate if it represents a process ID. The loop
condition checks if the pointer t_name is non-NULL, but since
incrementing a pointer never makes it NULL, this condition is always
true within the loop's context. Although the inner isdigit() check
catches the NUL terminator and breaks out of the loop, the condition
is semantically misleading and not idiomatic for C string processing.

Correct the loop condition from checking the pointer (t_name) to
checking the character it points to (*t_name). This ensures the loop
terminates when the NUL terminator is reached, aligning with standard
C string iteration practices. While the original code functioned
correctly due to the existing character validation, this change
improves code clarity and maintainability.

Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
---
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.c b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.c
index bcc5b5d383d8b..16aa59c90bdb2 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.c
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.c
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static int procfs_is_workload_pid(const char *comm_prefix, struct dirent *proc_e
 		return 0;
 
 	/* check if the string is a pid */
-	for (t_name = proc_entry->d_name; t_name; t_name++) {
+	for (t_name = proc_entry->d_name; *t_name; t_name++) {
 		if (!isdigit(*t_name))
 			break;
 	}
-- 
2.53.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-09 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-09 19:46 [PATCH v4 00/18] rtla: Robustness and code quality improvements Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 01/18] rtla: Exit on memory allocation failures during initialization Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 02/18] rtla: Use strdup() to simplify code Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 03/18] rtla/actions: Simplify argument parsing Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 04/18] rtla: Introduce common_threshold_handler() helper Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 05/18] rtla: Replace magic number with MAX_PATH Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 06/18] rtla: Simplify code by caching string lengths Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 07/18] rtla: Add strscpy() and replace strncpy() calls Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 08/18] rtla/timerlat: Add bounds check for softirq vector Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 09/18] rtla: Handle pthread_create() failure properly Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 10/18] rtla: Add str_has_prefix() helper function Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 11/18] rtla: Use str_has_prefix() for prefix checks Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 12/18] rtla: Enforce exact match for time unit suffixes Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-12 12:17   ` Tomas Glozar
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 13/18] rtla: Use str_has_prefix() for option prefix check Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 14/18] rtla/timerlat: Simplify RTLA_NO_BPF environment variable check Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 15/18] rtla/trace: Fix write loop in trace_event_save_hist() Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 16/18] rtla/trace: Fix I/O handling in save_trace_to_file() Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4 17/18] rtla/utils: Fix resource leak in set_comm_sched_attr() Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-09 19:46 ` Wander Lairson Costa [this message]

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