oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs
If oprofilefs_ulong_from_user() is called with count equals
zero, *val remains unchanged. Depending on the implementation it
might be uninitialized.
Change oprofilefs_ulong_from_user()'s interface to return count
on success. Thus, we are able to return early if count equals
zero which avoids using *val uninitialized. Fixing all users of
oprofilefs_ulong_ from_user().
This follows write syscall implementation when count is zero:
"If count is zero ... [and if] no errors are detected, 0 will be
returned without causing any other effect." (man 2 write)
Reported-By: Mike Waychison <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: oprofile-list <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>