Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] tracing/probes: Fix a warning message to show correct maximum length

[Masami Hiramatsu]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:04:34 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:21:55 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Since tracing/*probe_events will accept a probe definition
> > up to 4096 - 2 ('\n' and '\0') bytes, it must show 4094 instead
> > of 4096 in warning message.
> 
> Actually, during the testing I found that we don't need the '\n'.
> 
> 	echo -n 'p:irq do_IRQ a=@jiffies_64' > kprobe_events
> 
> works just fine. My tests work with 4095 characters. Before and after
> my patch.

Yeah, I see. I concider the case that if the writer writes 
4095 chars command + '\n' + next command, it will fail, that
is what I pointed out below note.

> > 
> > Note that there is one possible case of exceed 4094. If user
> > prepare 4096 bytes null-terminated string and syscall write
> > it with the count == 4095, then it can be accepted. However,
> > if user puts a '\n' after that, it must rejected.
> > So IMHO, the warning message should indicate shorter one,
> > since it is safer.

Thank you,

> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  kernel/trace/trace_probe.c |    3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
> > index 2a06f1f..847c1e0 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
> > @@ -678,8 +678,9 @@ ssize_t traceprobe_probes_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
> >  				if (done + size < count) {
> >  					if (buf != kbuf)
> >  						break;
> > +					/* This can accept WRITE_BUFSIZE - 2 ('\n' + '\0') */
> >  					pr_warn("Line length is too long: Should be less than %d\n",
> > -						WRITE_BUFSIZE);
> > +						WRITE_BUFSIZE - 2);
> >  					ret = -EINVAL;
> >  					goto out;
> >  				}
> 


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>