From cbe08bcbbe787315c425dde284dcb715cfbf3f39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elazar Leibovich Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 13:58:37 +0200 Subject: tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file When reading only part of the id file, the ppos isn't tracked correctly. This is taken care by simple_read_from_buffer. Reading a single byte, and then the next byte would result EOF. While this seems like not a big deal, this breaks abstractions that reads information from files unbuffered. See for example https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29399 This code was mentioned as problematic in commit cd458ba9d5a5 ("tracing: Do not (ab)use trace_seq in event_id_read()") An example C code that show this bug is: #include #include #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { if (argc < 2) return 1; int fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY); char c; read(fd, &c, 1); printf("First %c\n", c); read(fd, &c, 1); printf("Second %c\n", c); } Then run with, e.g. sudo ./a.out /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/tcp/tcp_set_state/id You'll notice you're getting the first character twice, instead of the first two characters in the id file. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181231115837.4932-1-elazar@lightbitslabs.com Cc: Orit Wasserman Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 23725aeeab10b ("ftrace: provide an id file for each event") Signed-off-by: Elazar Leibovich Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace_events.c') diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c index 81c038ed6cee..0ce3db67f556 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c @@ -1319,9 +1319,6 @@ event_id_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos) char buf[32]; int len; - if (*ppos) - return 0; - if (unlikely(!id)) return -ENODEV; -- cgit v1.2.3