Re: [PATCH 1/3] objtool: Add --backup

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 11:57:43AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> +static bool objtool_create_backup(const char *_objname)
> +{
> +	int len = strlen(_objname);
> +	char *buf, *base, *name = malloc(len+3);
> +	int s, d, l, t;
> +
> +	if (!name) {
> +		WARN("failed backup name malloc");
> +		return false;
> +	}
> +
> +	strcpy(name, _objname);
> +	strcpy(name + len, "bj");
> +
> +	d = open(name, O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC);

Yah, as mentioned on IRC and let me paste it here too, you need to
supply mode with O_CREAT:

	d = open(name, O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC,S_IRUSR);

or so. Also you could add perror("open") to those error paths so that it
can say why it failed creating the backup file.

With that, thanks for doing those!

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

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