Re: [PATCH] kprobes: handle empty/invalid input to debugfs "enabled" file

[Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>]

(2013/06/01 6:15), Mathias Krause wrote:
> When writing invalid input to 'debug/kprobes/enabled' it'll silently
> be ignored. Even worse, when writing an empty string to this file,
> the outcome is purely random as the switch statement will make its
> decision based on the value of an uninitialized stack variable.

Oops, right.

> 
> Fix this by handling invalid/empty input as error returning -EINVAL.

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

> 
> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
> ---
>  kernel/kprobes.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
> index 3fed7f0..948b597 100644
> --- a/kernel/kprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
> @@ -2322,6 +2322,7 @@ static ssize_t write_enabled_file_bool(struct file *file,
>  	if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, buf_size))
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
> +	buf[buf_size] = '\0';
>  	switch (buf[0]) {
>  	case 'y':
>  	case 'Y':
> @@ -2333,6 +2334,8 @@ static ssize_t write_enabled_file_bool(struct file *file,
>  	case '0':
>  		disarm_all_kprobes();
>  		break;
> +	default:
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
>  	return count;
> 


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Masami HIRAMATSU
IT Management Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com