Re: [tip:perf/urgent] perf symbols: Check '/tmp/perf-' symbol file ownership

[Pekka Enberg]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:51 AM, David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/10/2011 03:48 AM, tip-bot for Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> Commit-ID:  981c1252691f4b855f2bb47ea93fb6052ea3aee2
>> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/981c1252691f4b855f2bb47ea93fb6052ea3aee2
>> Author:     Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> AuthorDate: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 22:54:18 +0300
>> Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> CommitDate: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 15:23:08 -0300
>>
>> perf symbols: Check '/tmp/perf-' symbol file ownership
>>
>> 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'.
>>
>> Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312919658-17158-1-git-send-email-penberg@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@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;
>> +             }
>
> Is the force option relevant here -- similar to perf_session__open()?

I don't know, I guess not. Ingo, Arnaldo?
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