Re: [PATCH] perf script: fix invalid read

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Apr 02 2020 - 11:15:43 EST


Em Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 02:43:38PM +0200, Andreas Gerstmayr escreveu:
> closedir(lang_dir) frees the memory of script_dirent->d_name, which
> gets accessed in the next line in a call to scnprintf().
>
> Valgrind report:
>
> Invalid read of size 1
> ==413557== at 0x483CBE6: strlen (vg_replace_strmem.c:461)
> ==413557== by 0x4DD45FD: __vfprintf_internal (vfprintf-internal.c:1688)
> ==413557== by 0x4DE6679: __vsnprintf_internal (vsnprintf.c:114)
> ==413557== by 0x53A037: vsnprintf (stdio2.h:80)
> ==413557== by 0x53A037: scnprintf (vsprintf.c:21)
> ==413557== by 0x435202: get_script_path (builtin-script.c:3223)
> ==413557== Address 0x52e7313 is 1,139 bytes inside a block of size 32,816 free'd
> ==413557== at 0x483AA0C: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:540)
> ==413557== by 0x4E303C0: closedir (closedir.c:50)
> ==413557== by 0x4351DC: get_script_path (builtin-script.c:3222)

Thanks, applied to perf/urgent.

- Arnaldo

> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gerstmayr <agerstmayr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
> index 656b347f6dd8..170af13b4d53 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c
> @@ -3218,10 +3218,10 @@ static char *get_script_path(const char *script_root, const char *suffix)
> __script_root = get_script_root(script_dirent, suffix);
> if (__script_root && !strcmp(script_root, __script_root)) {
> free(__script_root);
> - closedir(lang_dir);
> closedir(scripts_dir);
> scnprintf(script_path, MAXPATHLEN, "%s/%s",
> lang_path, script_dirent->d_name);
> + closedir(lang_dir);
> return strdup(script_path);
> }
> free(__script_root);
> --
> 2.25.1
>

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- Arnaldo