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tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file
authorElazar Leibovich <elazar@lightbitslabs.com>
Mon, 31 Dec 2018 11:58:37 +0000 (13:58 +0200)
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Wed, 8 May 2019 16:15:12 +0000 (12:15 -0400)
commita0aa07fbb29a5f6036ad6178a7089b530eefa247
tree963741ea74c1e6fef3f58604ed5ed7b8745303b4
parent764ed67b2df70ebd37b277fca4c38e20a571961c
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 5645f61baee2
("tracing: Do not (ab)use trace_seq in event_id_read()")

An example C code that show this bug is:

  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <stdint.h>

  #include <sys/types.h>
  #include <sys/stat.h>
  #include <fcntl.h>
  #include <unistd.h>

  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 <orit.was@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 154aba718a773 ("ftrace: provide an id file for each event")
Signed-off-by: Elazar Leibovich <elazar@lightbitslabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel/trace/trace_events.c