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Subject[PATCH 20/73] perf machine: Null-terminate version char array upon fgets(/proc/version) error
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From: Donald Yandt <donald.yandt@gmail.com>

If fgets() fails due to any other error besides end-of-file, the version
char array may not even be null-terminated.

Signed-off-by: Donald Yandt <donald.yandt@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: a1645ce12adb ("perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190514110100.22019-1-donald.yandt@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
tools/perf/util/machine.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
index 3c520baa198c..28a9541c4835 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
@@ -1234,8 +1234,9 @@ static char *get_kernel_version(const char *root_dir)
if (!file)
return NULL;

- version[0] = '\0';
tmp = fgets(version, sizeof(version), file);
+ if (!tmp)
+ *version = '\0';
fclose(file);

name = strstr(version, prefix);
--
2.20.1
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