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authorNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>2009-09-23 15:56:54 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-24 07:21:00 -0700
commit725eae32df7754044809973034429a47e6035158 (patch)
tree96a66c65a085940a19374ee02c26fb8f1931a6be /kernel
parentae6d2ed7bb3877ff35b9569402025f40ea2e1803 (diff)
exec: make do_coredump() more resilient to recursive crashes
Change how we detect recursive dumps. Currently we have a mechanism by which we try to compare pathnames of the crashing process to the core_pattern path. This is broken for a dozen reasons, and just doesn't work in any sort of robust way. I'm replacing it with the use of a 0 RLIMIT_CORE value. Since helper apps set RLIMIT_CORE to zero, we don't write out core files for any process with that particular limit set. It the core_pattern is a pipe, any non-zero limit is translated to RLIM_INFINITY. This allows complete dumps to be captured, but prevents infinite recursion in the event that the core_pattern process itself crashes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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