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authorTobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>2018-02-26 23:02:57 -0500
committerTobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>2018-04-06 18:50:34 -0400
commit472c9e1085f20de71fc482500c8f1e4e45dff651 (patch)
treeb710800c2d94e77eaae3c728449f1d4643b65096 /scripts/leaking_addresses.pl
parent5e4bac34edc7829b4a0749e3870d4a171c1f036f (diff)
leaking_addresses: skip all /proc/PID except /proc/1
When the system is idle it is likely that most files under /proc/PID will be identical for various processes. Scanning _all_ the PIDs under /proc is unnecessary and implies that we are thoroughly scanning /proc. This is _not_ the case because there may be ways userspace can trigger creation of /proc files that leak addresses but were not present during a scan. For these two reasons we should exclude all PID directories under /proc except '1/' Exclude all /proc/PID except /proc/1. Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/leaking_addresses.pl')
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diff --git a/scripts/leaking_addresses.pl b/scripts/leaking_addresses.pl
index 6e5bc57caeaa..2075d98278f2 100755
--- a/scripts/leaking_addresses.pl
+++ b/scripts/leaking_addresses.pl
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@
10# Use --debug to output path before parsing, this is useful to find files that 10# Use --debug to output path before parsing, this is useful to find files that
11# cause the script to choke. 11# cause the script to choke.
12 12
13#
14# When the system is idle it is likely that most files under /proc/PID will be
15# identical for various processes. Scanning _all_ the PIDs under /proc is
16# unnecessary and implies that we are thoroughly scanning /proc. This is _not_
17# the case because there may be ways userspace can trigger creation of /proc
18# files that leak addresses but were not present during a scan. For these two
19# reasons we exclude all PID directories under /proc except '1/'
20
13use warnings; 21use warnings;
14use strict; 22use strict;
15use POSIX; 23use POSIX;
@@ -472,6 +480,10 @@ sub walk
472 my $path = "$pwd/$file"; 480 my $path = "$pwd/$file";
473 next if (-l $path); 481 next if (-l $path);
474 482
483 # skip /proc/PID except /proc/1
484 next if (($path =~ /^\/proc\/[0-9]+$/) &&
485 ($path !~ /^\/proc\/1$/));
486
475 next if (skip($path)); 487 next if (skip($path));
476 488
477 if (-d $path) { 489 if (-d $path) {