From e9b52ef2228cd0bed7a4465c693a39489e2c338d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
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 <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110811205537.GA22864@albatros
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 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())) {