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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, mgorman@suse.de, juri.lelli@redhat.com,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, bsegall@google.com, bristot@redhat.com,
	joshdon@google.com, valentin.schneider@arm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] debugfs: Implement debugfs_create_str()
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 22:24:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YF+wrUjnGTsH6FGT@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210326103935.183934395@infradead.org>

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:33:58AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> +again:
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +	str = rcu_dereference(*(char **)file->private_data);
> +	len = strlen(str) + 1;
> +
> +	if (!copy || copy_len < len) {
> +		rcu_read_unlock();
> +		kfree(copy);
> +		copy = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!copy) {
> +			debugfs_file_put(dentry);
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +		}
> +		copy_len = len;
> +		goto again;
> +	}
> +
> +	strncpy(copy, str, len);
> +	copy[len] = '\n';
> +	copy[len+1] = '\0';
> +	rcu_read_unlock();

*Ow*

	If the string can't change under you, what is RCU use about?
And if it can, any use of string functions is asking for serious
trouble; they are *not* guaranteed to be safe when any of the strings
involved might be modified under them.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-27 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-26 10:33 [PATCH 0/9] sched: Clean up SCHED_DEBUG Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 10:33 ` [PATCH 1/9] sched/numa: Allow runtime enabling/disabling of NUMA balance without SCHED_DEBUG Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 10:33 ` [PATCH 2/9] sched: Remove sched_schedstats sysctl out from under SCHED_DEBUG Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 10:33 ` [PATCH 3/9] sched: Dont make LATENCYTOP select SCHED_DEBUG Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 10:33 ` [PATCH 4/9] sched: Move SCHED_DEBUG to debugfs Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 11:06   ` Greg KH
2021-04-07 10:46   ` Valentin Schneider
2021-04-07 12:26     ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 12:57       ` Valentin Schneider
2021-03-26 10:33 ` [PATCH 5/9] sched,preempt: Move preempt_dynamic to debug.c Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 10:33 ` [PATCH 6/9] debugfs: Implement debugfs_create_str() Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 11:05   ` Greg KH
2021-03-26 11:18     ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 11:30       ` Greg KH
2021-03-26 11:38         ` [PATCH v2 " Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 12:18           ` Greg KH
2021-03-26 12:53           ` Rasmus Villemoes
2021-03-26 12:57             ` Greg KH
2021-03-26 13:10               ` Rasmus Villemoes
2021-03-26 14:12                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 14:19                   ` Greg KH
2021-03-26 14:22             ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 14:58               ` Rasmus Villemoes
2021-03-26 15:19                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-27 10:41                   ` Greg KH
2021-03-26 14:50   ` [PATCH v3 " Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-27 10:42     ` Greg KH
2021-03-27 22:24   ` Al Viro [this message]
2021-03-28  0:33     ` [PATCH " Steven Rostedt
2021-03-26 10:33 ` [PATCH 7/9] sched,debug: Convert sysctl sched_domains to debugfs Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 13:11   ` Dietmar Eggemann
2021-04-07 10:46   ` Valentin Schneider
2021-04-07 12:18     ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 10:34 ` [PATCH 8/9] sched: Move /proc/sched_debug " Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 11:05   ` Greg KH
2021-03-26 10:34 ` [PATCH 9/9] sched,fair: Alternative sched_slice() Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 12:08   ` Dietmar Eggemann
2021-03-26 14:07     ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-26 15:37   ` Vincent Guittot
2021-03-26 18:30     ` Peter Zijlstra

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