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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov@samsung.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] exec: Fix use after free of tracepoint trace_sched_process_exec
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 15:31:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140204153128.4eb52cbc@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyObrVGXqncNboMzybeevPBOtAUcn-zur_B26VHJ1CEcg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 12:18:53 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:


> We do have bprm->file, and we could get a path from that. It would be
> more expensive, but for tracing execve that might be fine. Yes/no?

I actually looked at that. But it may duplicate a bit of code. I was
thinking perhaps of making helper functions to extract the path string
from the file pointer (if there isn't one already that I'm unaware of)
and using that. Also it might be used for places like proc.

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-04 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-04 17:05 Steven Rostedt
2014-02-04 19:00 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-02-04 20:10   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-04 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-04 20:31   ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2014-02-04 23:28   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-04 23:42     ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-05  0:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-05  1:10         ` Al Viro
2014-02-05  3:37           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-05 13:52             ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-02-05 16:52               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-05  2:31         ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-05  2:51           ` Steven Rostedt

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