[PATCH 1/2] tracing: Fix possible NULL pointer dereferences

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Thu Apr 11 2013 - 02:55:16 EST


From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@xxxxxxx>

Currently set_ftrace_pid and set_graph_function files use seq_lseek
for their fops. However seq_open() is called only for FMODE_READ in
the fops->open() so that if an user tries to seek one of those file
when she open it for writing, it sees NULL seq_file and then panic.

It can be easily reproduced with following command:

$ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
$ echo 1234 | sudo tee -a set_ftrace_pid

In this example, GNU coreutils' tee opens the file with fopen(, "a")
and then the fopen() internally calls lseek().

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/ftrace.h | 2 +-
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 10 +++++-----
kernel/trace/trace_stack.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
index 832422d706f4..c7687d8c0b30 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ ssize_t ftrace_filter_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos);
ssize_t ftrace_notrace_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos);
-loff_t ftrace_regex_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence);
+loff_t ftrace_filter_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence);
int ftrace_regex_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file);

void __init
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 03953fbd1b2a..be2bcb7ab2f7 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -2688,7 +2688,7 @@ ftrace_notrace_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
}

loff_t
-ftrace_regex_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
+ftrace_filter_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
{
loff_t ret;

@@ -3613,7 +3613,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_filter_fops = {
.open = ftrace_filter_open,
.read = seq_read,
.write = ftrace_filter_write,
- .llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek,
+ .llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek,
.release = ftrace_regex_release,
};

@@ -3621,7 +3621,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_notrace_fops = {
.open = ftrace_notrace_open,
.read = seq_read,
.write = ftrace_notrace_write,
- .llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek,
+ .llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek,
.release = ftrace_regex_release,
};

@@ -3826,8 +3826,8 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_graph_fops = {
.open = ftrace_graph_open,
.read = seq_read,
.write = ftrace_graph_write,
+ .llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek,
.release = ftrace_graph_release,
- .llseek = seq_lseek,
};
#endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER */

@@ -4481,7 +4481,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_pid_fops = {
.open = ftrace_pid_open,
.write = ftrace_pid_write,
.read = seq_read,
- .llseek = seq_lseek,
+ .llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek,
.release = ftrace_pid_release,
};

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
index 8c3f37e2dc43..b20428c5efe2 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ static const struct file_operations stack_trace_filter_fops = {
.open = stack_trace_filter_open,
.read = seq_read,
.write = ftrace_filter_write,
- .llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek,
+ .llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek,
.release = ftrace_regex_release,
};

--
1.7.11.7

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