[PATCH 03/12] perf: fix temporary file ownership check

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

A file in /tmp/ might be a symlink, so lstat() should be used instead of
stat().

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: 20110811205537.GA22864@albatros">http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110811205537.GA22864@albatros
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/util/symbol.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index e142c21..469c026 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ int dso__load(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, symbol_filter_t filter)
 	if (strncmp(dso->name, "/tmp/perf-", 10) == 0) {
 		struct stat st;
 
-		if (stat(dso->name, &st) < 0)
+		if (lstat(dso->name, &st) < 0)
 			return -1;
 
 		if (st.st_uid && (st.st_uid != geteuid())) {
-- 
1.6.2.5

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