Re: [PATCH 1/3] tracing/filters: allow user-input to beinteger-like string

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Mon Apr 13 2009 - 10:45:30 EST


On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:38:12AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> Suppose we would like to trace all tasks named '123', but this
> will fail:
> # echo 'parent_comm == 123' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter
> bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
>
> Don't guess the type of the filter pred in filter_parse(), but instead
> we check it in filter_add_pred().
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
> 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
> index 9f8ecca..a63f965 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
> @@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ static int is_string_field(const char *type)
> int filter_add_pred(struct ftrace_event_call *call, struct filter_pred *pred)
> {
> struct ftrace_event_field *field;
> + unsigned long long val;
>
> field = find_event_field(call, pred->field_name);
> if (!field)
> @@ -237,14 +238,14 @@ int filter_add_pred(struct ftrace_event_call *call, struct filter_pred *pred)
> pred->offset = field->offset;
>
> if (is_string_field(field->type)) {
> - if (!pred->str_val)
> - return -EINVAL;
> pred->fn = filter_pred_string;
> pred->str_len = field->size;
> return __filter_add_pred(call, pred);
> } else {
> - if (pred->str_val)
> + if (strict_strtoull(pred->str_val, 0, &val))
> return -EINVAL;
> + pred->val = val;
> + kfree(pred->str_val);


And you might also want to do
pred->str_val = NULL;
Otherwise filter_free_pred() may crash later:

void filter_free_pred(struct filter_pred *pred)
{
if (!pred)
return;

kfree(pred->field_name);
kfree(pred->str_val);
kfree(pred);
}


Other than that, it looks good.

Thanks,
Frederic.



> }
>
> switch (field->size) {
> @@ -351,12 +352,16 @@ oom:
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * The filter format can be
> + * - 0, which means remove all filter preds
> + * - [||/&&] <field> ==/!= <val>
> + */
> int filter_parse(char **pbuf, struct filter_pred *pred)
> {
> - char *tmp, *tok, *val_str = NULL;
> + char *tok, *val_str = NULL;
> int tok_n = 0;
>
> - /* field ==/!= number, or/and field ==/!= number, number */
> while ((tok = strsep(pbuf, " \n"))) {
> if (tok_n == 0) {
> if (!strcmp(tok, "0")) {
> @@ -419,15 +424,10 @@ int filter_parse(char **pbuf, struct filter_pred *pred)
> if (!pred->field_name)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - pred->val = simple_strtoull(val_str, &tmp, 0);
> - if (tmp == val_str) {
> - pred->str_val = kstrdup(val_str, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!pred->str_val)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> - } else if (*tmp != '\0')
> - return -EINVAL;
> + pred->str_val = kstrdup(val_str, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!pred->str_val)
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> return 0;
> }
>
> -
> --
> 1.5.4.rc3
>

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