[lttng-dev] [PATCH] A minimal rewrite of lttctl

Matthew Khouzam matthew.khouzam at ericsson.com
Thu Dec 8 10:29:48 EST 2011


Please correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the failure to malloc
return an enomem like :
if opt_head = (struct lttctl_option *)malloc(sizeof(struct lttctl_option));
{
    return enomem;
}
because it is hiding a larger more system destabilizing problem.

please others comment.
On 11-12-07 03:27 PM, Thibault, Daniel wrote:
> ------------------------------
>> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:04:26 -0500
>> From: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj at krystal.dyndns.org>
>>
>> If you can split out the obvious bugfixes from the refactoring/rewrite,
>> I would gladly accept the bugfixes.
> ------------------------------
>
>    All right, here is a minimal patch for lttctl.c:
>
> ------------------------------
> --- ../ltt-control-0.89-792f03c/lttctl/lttctl.c	2011-05-12 08:44:27.000000000 -0400
> +++ ../ltt-control-0.89-792f03c.minimalchanges/lttctl/lttctl.c	2011-12-07 15:18:28.000000000 -0500
> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
>  	struct lttctl_option *next;
>  };
>  
> -struct lttctl_option *opt_head, *last_opt;
> +static struct lttctl_option *opt_head, *last_opt;
>  
>  static int opt_create;
>  static int opt_destroy;
> @@ -236,9 +236,11 @@
>  
>  	if (!opt_head) {
>  		opt_head = (struct lttctl_option *)malloc(sizeof(struct lttctl_option));
> +		if (opthead) {
>  		init_channel_opt(&opt_head->opt_mode.chan_opt, opt_name);
>  		opt_head->type = CHANNEL;
>  		opt_head->next = NULL;
> +		}
>  		last_opt = opt_head;
>  		return opt_head;
>  	}
> @@ -251,15 +253,17 @@
>  	}
>  
>  	new_opt = (struct lttctl_option *)malloc(sizeof(struct lttctl_option));
> +	if (new_opt) {
>  	init_channel_opt(&new_opt->opt_mode.chan_opt, opt_name);
>  	new_opt->type = CHANNEL;
>  	new_opt->next = NULL;
>  	last_opt->next = new_opt;
>  	last_opt = new_opt;
> +	}
>  	return new_opt;
>  }
>  
> -int set_channel_opt(struct channel_option *opt, char *opt_name, char *opt_valstr)
> +static int set_channel_opt(struct channel_option *opt, char *opt_name, char *opt_valstr)
>  {
>  	int opt_val, ret;
> ------------------------------
>
>    It makes opt_head and last_opt private.
>    In find_insert_channel_opt, it handles malloc() failure; previously, if malloc() failed while creating a new lttctl_option list node, one immediately got a segmentation fault.
>    It makes set_channel_opt() private (there is no reason why it should be exportable, and all the other functions in this unit are private).
>
>    Here is a minimal patch for liblttctl.c:
>
> ------------------------------
> --- ../ltt-control-0.89-792f03c/liblttctl/liblttctl.c	2011-05-12 08:44:27.000000000 -0400
> +++ ../ltt-control-0.89-792f03c.minimalchanges/liblttctl/liblttctl.c	2011-12-07 15:03:31.000000000 -0500
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
>  #include <fcntl.h>
>  #include <stdlib.h>
>  
> -#define MAX_CHANNEL	(256)
> +//#define MAX_CHANNEL	(256)
>  
>  static char debugfsmntdir[PATH_MAX];
>  
> @@ -107,11 +107,6 @@
>  {
>  	int fd;
>  
> -	if (!fname) {
> -		fprintf(stderr, "%s: args invalid\n", __func__);
> -		return 1;
> -	}
> -
>  	fd = open(fname, O_WRONLY);
>  	if (fd == -1) {
>  		fprintf(stderr, "%s: open %s failed: %s\n", __func__, fname,
> @@ -227,6 +222,10 @@
>  			continue;
>  		old_list = list;
>  		list = malloc(sizeof(char *) * ++nr_chan);
> +		if (!list) {
> +			nr_chan = -ENOMEM;
> +			break;
> +		}
>  		memcpy(list, old_list, sizeof(*list) * (nr_chan - 1));
>  		free(old_list);
>  		list[nr_chan - 1] = strdup(dirent->d_name);
> @@ -405,7 +404,7 @@
>  	int ret;
>  	char ctlfname[PATH_MAX];
>  
> -	if (!name) {
> +	if (!name || !trans) {
>  		fprintf(stderr, "%s: args invalid\n", __func__);
>  		ret = -EINVAL;
>  		goto arg_error;
> @@ -477,9 +476,10 @@
>  			goto op_err;
>  		}
>  
> -		for (; n_channel > 0; n_channel--) {
> +		int ch = 0;
> +		for ( ; ch < n_channel; ch++) {
>  			ret = __lttctl_set_channel_enable(name,
> -				channellist[n_channel - 1], enable);
> +				channellist[ch], enable);
>  			if (ret)
>  				goto op_err_clean;
>  		}
> @@ -541,9 +541,10 @@
>  			goto op_err;
>  		}
>  
> -		for (; n_channel > 0; n_channel--) {
> +		int ch = 0;
> +		for ( ; ch < n_channel; ch++) {
>  			ret = __lttctl_set_channel_overwrite(name,
> -				channellist[n_channel - 1], overwrite);
> +				channellist[ch], overwrite);
>  			if (ret)
>  				goto op_err_clean;
>  		}
> @@ -609,9 +610,10 @@
>  			goto op_err;
>  		}
>  
> -		for (; n_channel > 0; n_channel--) {
> +		int ch = 0;
> +		for ( ; ch < n_channel; ch++) {
>  			ret = __lttctl_set_channel_subbuf_num(name,
> -				channellist[n_channel - 1], subbuf_num);
> +				channellist[ch], subbuf_num);
>  			if (ret)
>  				goto op_err_clean;
>  		}
> @@ -677,9 +679,10 @@
>  			goto op_err;
>  		}
>  
> -		for (; n_channel > 0; n_channel--) {
> +		int ch = 0;
> +		for ( ; ch < n_channel; ch++) {
>  			ret = __lttctl_set_channel_subbuf_size(name,
> -				channellist[n_channel - 1], subbuf_size);
> +				channellist[ch], subbuf_size);
>  			if (ret)
>  				goto op_err_clean;
>  		}
> @@ -745,9 +748,10 @@
>  			goto op_err;
>  		}
>  
> -		for (; n_channel > 0; n_channel--) {
> +		int ch = 0;
> +		for ( ; ch < n_channel; ch++) {
>  			ret = __lttctl_set_channel_switch_timer(name,
> -				channellist[n_channel - 1], switch_timer);
> +				channellist[ch], switch_timer);
>  			if (ret)
>  				goto op_err_clean;
>  		}
> @@ -769,6 +773,9 @@
>  	char mnt_type[PATH_MAX];
>  	int trymount_done = 0;
>  
> +	if (!mntdir)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	FILE *fp = fopen("/proc/mounts", "r");
>  	if (!fp)
>  		return -EINVAL;
> @@ -779,14 +786,19 @@
>  			break;
>  
>  		if (!strcmp(mnt_type, "debugfs")) {
> +			// 4 for the LTT_PATH "/ltt", 9 for the LTT_CONTROL_PATH "/control/"
> +			// 9 for the LTT_CHANNEL_PATH "/channel/", 13 for the LTT_BUFFERS_TIMER_PATH "/switch_timer"
> +			// NAME_MAX for the trace name and the channel name
> +			if (strlen(mnt_dir) >= (PATH_MAX - (4 + 9 + 9 + 13 + 2*NAME_MAX)))
> +				return -ENOENT;
>  			strcpy(mntdir, mnt_dir);
>  			return 0;
>  		}
>  	}
>  
>  	if (!trymount_done) {
> -		mount("debugfs", "/sys/kernel/debug/", "debugfs", 0, NULL);
>  		trymount_done = 1;
> +		if (!mount("debugfs", "/sys/kernel/debug/", "debugfs", 0, NULL))
>  		goto find_again;
>  	}
> ------------------------------
>
>    It comments out the MAX_CHANNEL	define, which is unused.
>    It removes the lttctl_sendop() parameter check, which is unnecessary (this private function will always get valid arguments).
>    It handles malloc() failure in lttctl_get_channellist(); previously, if malloc() failed while growing the channellist, one immediately got a segmentation fault.
>    It fixes the missing parameter check in lttctl_set_trans().
>    In each of the lttctl_set_channel_*() functions, it fixes a memory leak: the original code would count n_channel down to zero before passing it to lttctl_free_channellist(), so that none of the strings stored in the channellist array were freed.
>    It fixes the missing parameter check in getdebugfsmntdir().
>    It limits the length of the debugfs mounting point path, based on the longest sub-path possible (generously using PATH_MAX for the channel name, which in practice is limited to 13 characters). Otherwise, whenever sprintf is used to build a debugfs path string, the string buffer could be overrun.
>    Finally, it prevents getdebugfsmntdir() from scanning /proc/mounts uselessly when the mount command fails.
>
>    I've also written (but omitted from this patch) the following:
>
> * A version of lttctl_sendop that handles the case where the write() is incomplete. This can potentially occur, but is so rare (I think it happens only if a signal interrupts the write) that it may not be worthwhile to fix it.
>
> * A version of lttctl_get_channellist that uses readdir_r for thread safety. Is this worthwhile?
>
> Daniel U. Thibault
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