From: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
To: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>, Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 02/12] objtool/klp: fix mkstemp() failure with long paths
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:37:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260310203751.1479229-3-joe.lawrence@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260310203751.1479229-1-joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
The elf_create_file() function fails with EINVAL when the build directory
path is long enough to truncate the "XXXXXX" suffix in the 256-byte
tmp_name buffer.
Simplify the code to remove the unnecessary dirname()/basename() split
and concatenation. Instead, allocate the exact number of bytes needed for
the path.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
---
tools/objtool/elf.c | 23 +++--------------------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c
index 3da90686350d..2ffe3ebfbe37 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
-#include <libgen.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <linux/align.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
@@ -1189,7 +1188,7 @@ struct elf *elf_open_read(const char *name, int flags)
struct elf *elf_create_file(GElf_Ehdr *ehdr, const char *name)
{
struct section *null, *symtab, *strtab, *shstrtab;
- char *dir, *base, *tmp_name;
+ char *tmp_name;
struct symbol *sym;
struct elf *elf;
@@ -1203,29 +1202,13 @@ struct elf *elf_create_file(GElf_Ehdr *ehdr, const char *name)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&elf->sections);
- dir = strdup(name);
- if (!dir) {
- ERROR_GLIBC("strdup");
- return NULL;
- }
-
- dir = dirname(dir);
-
- base = strdup(name);
- if (!base) {
- ERROR_GLIBC("strdup");
- return NULL;
- }
-
- base = basename(base);
-
- tmp_name = malloc(256);
+ tmp_name = malloc(strlen(name) + 8);
if (!tmp_name) {
ERROR_GLIBC("malloc");
return NULL;
}
- snprintf(tmp_name, 256, "%s/%s.XXXXXX", dir, base);
+ sprintf(tmp_name, "%s.XXXXXX", name);
elf->fd = mkstemp(tmp_name);
if (elf->fd == -1) {
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-10 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-10 20:37 [PATCH v4 00/12] livepatch-klp-build: small fixups and enhancements Joe Lawrence
2026-03-10 20:37 ` [PATCH v4 01/12] objtool/klp: fix data alignment in __clone_symbol() Joe Lawrence
2026-03-10 20:37 ` Joe Lawrence [this message]
2026-03-10 20:37 ` [PATCH v4 03/12] livepatch/klp-build: support patches that add/remove files Joe Lawrence
2026-03-10 20:37 ` [PATCH v4 04/12] livepatch/klp-build: switch to GNU patch and recountdiff Joe Lawrence
2026-03-11 22:20 ` Song Liu
2026-03-10 20:37 ` [PATCH v4 05/12] livepatch/klp-build: add grep-override function Joe Lawrence
2026-03-10 20:37 ` [PATCH v4 06/12] livepatch/klp-build: add Makefile with check target Joe Lawrence
2026-03-10 20:37 ` [PATCH v4 07/12] livepatch/klp-build: fix shellcheck complaints Joe Lawrence
2026-03-10 20:37 ` [PATCH v4 08/12] livepatch/klp-build: improve short-circuit validation Joe Lawrence
2026-03-10 20:37 ` [PATCH v4 09/12] livepatch/klp-build: Fix inconsistent kernel version Joe Lawrence
2026-03-11 22:23 ` Song Liu
2026-03-10 20:37 ` [PATCH v4 10/12] livepatch/klp-build: provide friendlier error messages Joe Lawrence
2026-03-10 20:37 ` [PATCH v4 11/12] livepatch/klp-build: add terminal color output Joe Lawrence
2026-03-10 20:37 ` [PATCH v4 12/12] livepatch/klp-build: report patch validation fuzz Joe Lawrence
2026-03-11 22:22 ` Song Liu
2026-03-16 22:23 ` [PATCH v4 00/12] livepatch-klp-build: small fixups and enhancements Josh Poimboeuf
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