From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:39:42 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Cleanup: don't spawn per-user thread if HOME is not set
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.0-rc2~23
X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9ec6895c5633ed93c5acdf1e5b06f075fbd709d3;p=lttng-ust.git

Cleanup: don't spawn per-user thread if HOME is not set

Reported-by: David OShea <David.OShea@quantum.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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diff --git a/liblttng-ust/lttng-ust-comm.c b/liblttng-ust/lttng-ust-comm.c
index 31955bb5..59b9a98f 100644
--- a/liblttng-ust/lttng-ust-comm.c
+++ b/liblttng-ust/lttng-ust-comm.c
@@ -157,14 +157,16 @@ int setup_local_apps(void)
 	 * Disallow per-user tracing for setuid binaries.
 	 */
 	if (uid != geteuid()) {
-		local_apps.allowed = 0;
+		assert(local_apps.allowed == 0);
 		return 0;
-	} else {
-		local_apps.allowed = 1;
 	}
 	home_dir = (const char *) getenv("HOME");
-	if (!home_dir)
+	if (!home_dir) {
+		WARN("HOME environment variable not set. Disabling LTTng-UST per-user tracing.");
+		assert(local_apps.allowed == 0);
 		return -ENOENT;
+	}
+	local_apps.allowed = 1;
 	snprintf(local_apps.sock_path, PATH_MAX,
 		 DEFAULT_HOME_APPS_UNIX_SOCK, home_dir);
 	snprintf(local_apps.wait_shm_path, PATH_MAX,
@@ -973,7 +975,7 @@ void __attribute__((constructor)) lttng_ust_init(void)
 
 	ret = setup_local_apps();
 	if (ret) {
-		ERR("Error setting up to local apps");
+		DBG("local apps setup returned %d", ret);
 	}
 
 	/* A new thread created by pthread_create inherits the signal mask