Re: [PATCH] OProfile: allow normal user to trigger sample dumps

From: Philippe Elie
Date: Tue Jun 22 2004 - 04:27:17 EST


On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 at 17:32 +0000, John Levon wrote:

>
> In 2.4, OProfile allowed normal users to trigger sample dumps (useful
> under low sample load). The patch below, by Will Cohen, allows this
> for 2.6 too. Against 2.6.7
>

The patch didn't apply cleanly (minor problem but I redo the diff), it works fine on my box and it's usefull imho. Please apply

regards,
Phil



--- linux-2.6.0-0.test11.1.100/drivers/oprofile/oprofile_files.c.userdump 2003-12-09 10:46:54.947629369 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.0-0.test11.1.100/drivers/oprofile/oprofile_files.c 2003-12-09 11:27:44.903151844 -0500
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
void oprofile_create_files(struct super_block * sb, struct dentry * root)
{
oprofilefs_create_file(sb, root, "enable", &enable_fops);
- oprofilefs_create_file(sb, root, "dump", &dump_fops);
+ oprofilefs_create_file_perm(sb, root, "dump", &dump_fops, 0666);
oprofilefs_create_file(sb, root, "buffer", &event_buffer_fops);
oprofilefs_create_ulong(sb, root, "buffer_size", &fs_buffer_size);
oprofilefs_create_ulong(sb, root, "buffer_watershed", &fs_buffer_watershed);

--- linux-2.6.0-0.test11.1.100/drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c.userdump 2003-12-09 10:58:57.858593945 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.0-0.test11.1.100/drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c 2003-12-09 11:28:24.125874244 -0500
@@ -165,7 +165,8 @@


static struct dentry * __oprofilefs_create_file(struct super_block * sb,
- struct dentry * root, char const * name, struct file_operations * fops)
+ struct dentry * root, char const * name, struct file_operations * fops,
+ int perm)
{
struct dentry * dentry;
struct inode * inode;
@@ -176,7 +177,7 @@
dentry = d_alloc(root, &qname);
if (!dentry)
return 0;
- inode = oprofilefs_get_inode(sb, S_IFREG | 0644);
+ inode = oprofilefs_get_inode(sb, S_IFREG | perm);
if (!inode) {
dput(dentry);
return 0;
@@ -190,7 +191,8 @@
int oprofilefs_create_ulong(struct super_block * sb, struct dentry * root,
char const * name, unsigned long * val)
{
- struct dentry * d = __oprofilefs_create_file(sb, root, name, &ulong_fops);
+ struct dentry * d = __oprofilefs_create_file(sb, root, name,
+ &ulong_fops, 0644);
if (!d)
return -EFAULT;

@@ -202,7 +204,8 @@
int oprofilefs_create_ro_ulong(struct super_block * sb, struct dentry * root,
char const * name, unsigned long * val)
{
- struct dentry * d = __oprofilefs_create_file(sb, root, name, &ulong_ro_fops);
+ struct dentry * d = __oprofilefs_create_file(sb, root, name,
+ &ulong_ro_fops, 0444);
if (!d)
return -EFAULT;

@@ -227,7 +230,8 @@
int oprofilefs_create_ro_atomic(struct super_block * sb, struct dentry * root,
char const * name, atomic_t * val)
{
- struct dentry * d = __oprofilefs_create_file(sb, root, name, &atomic_ro_fops);
+ struct dentry * d = __oprofilefs_create_file(sb, root, name,
+ &atomic_ro_fops, 0444);
if (!d)
return -EFAULT;

@@ -239,7 +243,16 @@
int oprofilefs_create_file(struct super_block * sb, struct dentry * root,
char const * name, struct file_operations * fops)
{
- if (!__oprofilefs_create_file(sb, root, name, fops))
+ if (!__oprofilefs_create_file(sb, root, name, fops, 0644))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+
+int oprofilefs_create_file_perm(struct super_block * sb, struct dentry * root,
+ char const * name, struct file_operations * fops, int perm)
+{
+ if (!__oprofilefs_create_file(sb, root, name, fops, perm))
return -EFAULT;
return 0;
}

--- linux-2.6.0-0.test11.1.100/include/linux/oprofile.h.userdump 2003-12-09 11:12:44.250469922 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.0-0.test11.1.100/include/linux/oprofile.h 2003-12-09 11:23:00.006494400 -0500
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@
*/
int oprofilefs_create_file(struct super_block * sb, struct dentry * root,
char const * name, struct file_operations * fops);
+
+int oprofilefs_create_file_perm(struct super_block * sb, struct dentry * root,
+ char const * name, struct file_operations * fops, int perm);

/** Create a file for read/write access to an unsigned long. */
int oprofilefs_create_ulong(struct super_block * sb, struct dentry * root,
-
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