Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] blktrace: fix debugfs use after free
From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Date: 2020-05-10 00:59:02
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On 2020-05-08 20:10, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
Screenshots of what the debugfs for block looks like after running blktrace on a system with sg0 which has a raid controllerand then sg1 as the media changer: # ls -l /sys/kernel/debug/block total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May 9 02:31 bsg drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 0 May 9 02:31 nvme0n1 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 0 May 9 02:31 nvme1n1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 9 02:31 nvme1n1p1 -> nvme1n1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 9 02:31 nvme1n1p2 -> nvme1n1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 9 02:31 nvme1n1p3 -> nvme1n1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 9 02:31 nvme1n1p5 -> nvme1n1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 9 02:31 nvme1n1p6 -> nvme1n1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 9 02:33 sch0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 9 02:33 sg0 -> bsg/2:0:0:0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 9 02:33 sg1 -> sch0 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 May 9 02:31 vda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 9 02:31 vda1 -> vda
So this patch creates one soft link per partition at partition creation time instead of letting the blktrace code create one directory per partition when tracing starts? Does this break running blktrace simultaneously for a partition and for the entire block device?
+static struct dentry *queue_debugfs_symlink_type(struct request_queue *q,
+ const char *src,
+ const char *dst,
+ enum blk_debugfs_dir_type type)
+{
+ struct dentry *dentry = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ char *dir_dst;
+
+ dir_dst = kzalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!dir_dst)
+ return dentry;
+
+ switch (type) {
+ case BLK_DBG_DIR_BASE:
+ if (dst)
+ snprintf(dir_dst, PATH_MAX, "%s", dst);
+ else if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(q->debugfs_dir))
+ snprintf(dir_dst, PATH_MAX, "%s",
+ q->debugfs_dir->d_name.name);
+ else
+ goto out;
+ break;
+ case BLK_DBG_DIR_BSG:
+ if (dst)
+ snprintf(dir_dst, PATH_MAX, "bsg/%s", dst);
+ else
+ goto out;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * The base block debugfs directory is always used for the symlinks,
+ * their target is what changes.
+ */
+ dentry = debugfs_create_symlink(src, blk_debugfs_root, dir_dst);
+out:
+ kfree(dir_dst);
+
+ return dentry;
+}Please use kasprintf() instead of k?alloc() followed by snprintf(). Thanks, Bart.