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perf symbols: Check access permission when reading symbol files

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There 2 problems when reading symbols files:

*  It doesn't report any errors even if when users specify symbol
   files which don't exist with --kallsyms or --vmlinux. The result
   just shows the address without symbols, which is not what is expected.
   So it's better to report errors and exit the program.

*  When using command perf report --kallsyms=/proc/kallsyms with a
   non-root user, symbols are resolved. Then select one symbol and
   annotate it, it reports the error as the following:
   Can't annotate __clear_user: No vmlinux file with build id xxx was
   found.

   The problem is caused by reading /proc/kcore without access permission.
   /proc/kcore requires CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability to access, so it needs to
   change access permission to allow a specific user to read /proc/kcore or
   use root to execute the perf command.

This patch is to report errors when symbol files specified by users
don't exist. And check access permission of /proc/kcore when reading it.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434704253-2632-1-git-send-email-zhlcindy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Li Zhang 2015-06-19 16:57:33 +08:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 32b8af82e3
commit 36c8bb56a9
2 changed files with 15 additions and 1 deletions
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tools/perf/builtin-report.c
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@ -742,6 +742,17 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, report_usage, 0);
if (symbol_conf.vmlinux_name &&
access(symbol_conf.vmlinux_name, R_OK)) {
pr_err("Invalid file: %s\n", symbol_conf.vmlinux_name);
return -EINVAL;
}
if (symbol_conf.kallsyms_name &&
access(symbol_conf.kallsyms_name, R_OK)) {
pr_err("Invalid file: %s\n", symbol_conf.kallsyms_name);
return -EINVAL;
}
if (report.use_stdio)
use_browser = 0;
else if (report.use_tui)

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tools/perf/util/symbol.c
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@ -1132,8 +1132,11 @@ static int dso__load_kcore(struct dso *dso, struct map *map,
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&md.maps);
fd = open(kcore_filename, O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0)
if (fd < 0) {
pr_err("%s requires CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability to access.\n",
kcore_filename);
return -EINVAL;
}
/* Read new maps into temporary lists */
err = file__read_maps(fd, md.type == MAP__FUNCTION, kcore_mapfn, &md,