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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/17] perf data: Fail check_backup in case of error
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:23:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190221222330.GD16922@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190221094145.9151-5-jolsa@kernel.org>

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:41:32AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> And display the error message from removing
> the old data file:
> 
>   $ perf record ls
>   Can't remove old data: Permission denied (perf.data.old)
>   Perf session creation failed.
> 
> Not sure how to make fail the rename (after we successfully
> remove the destination file/dir) to show the message,
> anyway let's have it there.

The use of rm_rf is really scary. So I simple command line typo could turn
this into rm -rf / ? 

Please add some sanity checks to not remove multiple levels,
and only remove files which look like they are generated
by perf.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-21 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-21  9:41 [PATCHv2 00/17] perf record: Add support to store data in directory Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 01/17] perf data: Move size to struct perf_data_file Jiri Olsa
2019-02-28  7:58   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 02/17] perf data: Add global path holder Jiri Olsa
2019-02-22 16:05   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-02-22 16:07     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-02-28  7:59   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 03/17] perf data: Make check_backup work over directories Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 04/17] perf data: Fail check_backup in case of error Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21 22:23   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2019-02-22 12:23     ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 05/17] perf data: Add perf_data__(create_dir|close_dir) functions Jiri Olsa
2019-02-23  5:07   ` Namhyung Kim
2019-02-24 13:32     ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 06/17] perf data: Add perf_data__open_dir_data function Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 07/17] perf data: Add directory support Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 08/17] perf data: Don't store auxtrace index for directory data file Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 09/17] perf data: Add perf_data__update_dir function Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 10/17] perf data: Make perf_data__size to work over directory Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 11/17] perf header: Add DIR_FORMAT feature to describe directory data Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 12/17] perf session: Add process callback to reader object Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 13/17] perf session: Add __perf_session__process_dir_events function Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 14/17] perf session: Add path to reader object Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 15/17] perf record: Add --dir option to store data in directory Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 16/17] perf record: Add --output-dir " Jiri Olsa
2019-02-21  9:41 ` [PATCH 17/17] perf record: Describe perf.data directory format Jiri Olsa

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