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    tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file · cbe08bcb
    Elazar Leibovich authored
    When reading only part of the id file, the ppos isn't tracked correctly.
    This is taken care by simple_read_from_buffer.
    
    Reading a single byte, and then the next byte would result EOF.
    
    While this seems like not a big deal, this breaks abstractions that
    reads information from files unbuffered. See for example
    https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29399
    
    This code was mentioned as problematic in
    commit cd458ba9
    ("tracing: Do not (ab)use trace_seq in event_id_read()")
    
    An example C code that show this bug is:
    
      #include <stdio.h>
      #include <stdint.h>
    
      #include <sys/types.h>
      #include <sys/stat.h>
      #include <fcntl.h>
      #include <unistd.h>
    
      int main(int argc, char **argv) {
        if (argc < 2)
          return 1;
        int fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
        char c;
        read(fd, &c, 1);
        printf("First  %c\n", c);
        read(fd, &c, 1);
        printf("Second %c\n", c);
      }
    
    Then run with, e.g.
    
      sudo ./a.out /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/tcp/tcp_set_state/id
    
    You'll notice you're getting the first character twice, instead of the
    first two characters in the id file.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181231115837.4932-1-elazar@lightbitslabs.com
    
    Cc: Orit Wasserman <orit.was@gmail.com>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Fixes: 23725aee ("ftrace: provide an id file for each event")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarElazar Leibovich <elazar@lightbitslabs.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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