The man page of the "fuser" command suggests that the argument can be a full pathname or inode address. However, the "fuser" command accepts an invalid argument and prints a bogus result as below: crash> fuser x PID TASK COMM USAGE 100507 ffff9914431f4c80 "packagekitd" fd 100508 ffff991574e59980 "gmain" fd 100509 ffff9914431f3300 "gdbus" fd 102020 ffff991574400000 "sshd" fd 102043 ffff991441d19980 "sshd" fd The current fuser command has no checking mechanism to determine if an argument is valid or not. Lets add it to handle such cases. With the patch: crash> fuser x fuser: invalid argument: x In addition, also add a note that fuser does not expect an argument other than an inode address and full pathname, if others are specified, the output can be an unexpected result. Reported-by: Buland Kumar Singh <bsingh(a)redhat.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang(a)redhat.com&gt; --- filesys.c | 8 +++++++- help.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/filesys.c b/filesys.c index d64b54a9b822..307da05a774f 100644 --- a/filesys.c +++ b/filesys.c @@ -3421,7 +3421,13 @@ cmd_fuser(void) doing_fds = doing_mmap = 0; while (args[optind]) { - spec_string = args[optind]; + ulong spec_addr; + spec_string = args[optind]; + spec_addr = htol(spec_string, RETURN_ON_ERROR|QUIET, NULL); + if ((spec_addr == BADADDR || !IS_KVADDR(spec_addr)) && + spec_string[0] != '/') + error(FATAL, "invalid argument: %s\n", args[optind]); + if (STRNEQ(spec_string, "0x") && hexadecimal(spec_string, 0)) shift_string_left(spec_string, 2); len = strlen(spec_string); diff --git a/help.c b/help.c index 9a5cd3615589..ded4ee19d955 100644 --- a/help.c +++ b/help.c @@ -7990,6 +7990,9 @@ char *help_fuser[] = { " listed.\n", " pathname the full pathname of the file.", " inode the hexadecimal inode address for the file.", +" Note: fuser does not expect an argument other than an inode address", +" and a full path, and if others are specified, the output can", +" be an unexpected one.", "\nEXAMPLES", " Display the tasks using file /usr/lib/libkfm.so.2.0.0\n", " %s> fuser /usr/lib/libkfm.so.2.0.0",