From e9b52ef2228cd0bed7a4465c693a39489e2c338d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vasiliy Kulikov Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:55:37 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] perf: fix temporary file ownership check A file in /tmp/ might be a symlink, so lstat() should be used instead of stat(). Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110811205537.GA22864@albatros Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c index e142c21ae9a5..469c0264ed29 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c @@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ int dso__load(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, symbol_filter_t filter) if (strncmp(dso->name, "/tmp/perf-", 10) == 0) { struct stat st; - if (stat(dso->name, &st) < 0) + if (lstat(dso->name, &st) < 0) return -1; if (st.st_uid && (st.st_uid != geteuid())) {