[PATCH] perf tools: Check '/tmp/perf-' symbol file ownership

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Tue Aug 09 2011 - 15:54:25 EST


The external symbol files are generated by JIT compilers, for example, but we
need to make sure they're ours before injecting them to 'perf report'.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index eec1963..a8b5371 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -1504,6 +1504,17 @@ int dso__load(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, symbol_filter_t filter)
dso->adjust_symbols = 0;

if (strncmp(dso->name, "/tmp/perf-", 10) == 0) {
+ struct stat st;
+
+ if (stat(dso->name, &st) < 0)
+ return -1;
+
+ if (st.st_uid && (st.st_uid != geteuid())) {
+ pr_warning("File %s not owned by current user or root, "
+ "ignoring it.\n", dso->name);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
ret = dso__load_perf_map(dso, map, filter);
dso->symtab_type = ret > 0 ? SYMTAB__JAVA_JIT :
SYMTAB__NOT_FOUND;
--
1.7.0.4

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