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authorNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>2007-10-16 23:26:34 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 08:42:50 -0700
commit7dc0b22e3c54f1f4730354fef84a20f5944f6c5e (patch)
tree8b281ed3315699eb0b21f00b5933b6222add5b5a /arch/mips
parent8e2b705649e294f43a8cd1ea79e4c594c0bd1d9d (diff)
core_pattern: ignore RLIMIT_CORE if core_pattern is a pipe
For some time /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern has been able to set its output destination as a pipe, allowing a user space helper to receive and intellegently process a core. This infrastructure however has some shortcommings which can be enhanced. Specifically: 1) The coredump code in the kernel should ignore RLIMIT_CORE limitation when core_pattern is a pipe, since file system resources are not being consumed in this case, unless the user application wishes to save the core, at which point the app is restricted by usual file system limits and restrictions. 2) The core_pattern code should be able to parse and pass options to the user space helper as an argv array. The real core limit of the uid of the crashing proces should also be passable to the user space helper (since it is overridden to zero when called). 3) Some miscellaneous bugs need to be cleaned up (specifically the recognition of a recursive core dump, should the user mode helper itself crash. Also, the core dump code in the kernel should not wait for the user mode helper to exit, since the same context is responsible for writing to the pipe, and a read of the pipe by the user mode helper will result in a deadlock. This patch: Remove the check of RLIMIT_CORE if core_pattern is a pipe. In the event that core_pattern is a pipe, the entire core will be fed to the user mode helper. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Cc: <wwoods@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips')
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c b/arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c
index 5a3fe43e301..b997af713eb 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
static int load_irix_binary(struct linux_binprm * bprm, struct pt_regs * regs);
static int load_irix_library(struct file *);
static int irix_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs * regs,
- struct file *file);
+ struct file *file, unsigned long limit);
static struct linux_binfmt irix_format = {
.module = THIS_MODULE,
@@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@ end_coredump:
* and then they are actually written out. If we run out of core limit
* we just truncate.
*/
-static int irix_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs * regs, struct file *file)
+static int irix_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs *regs, struct file *file, unsigned long limit)
{
int has_dumped = 0;
mm_segment_t fs;
@@ -1101,7 +1101,6 @@ static int irix_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs * regs, struct file *file)
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
struct elfhdr elf;
off_t offset = 0, dataoff;
- int limit = current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_CORE].rlim_cur;
int numnote = 3;
struct memelfnote notes[3];
struct elf_prstatus prstatus; /* NT_PRSTATUS */