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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] coredump: add a new elf note with siginfo fields of the signal
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:52:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120913155259.GA2267@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120913153615.GB32128@redhat.com>

forgot to mention...

On 09/13, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Not sure this is right. I think fill_siginfo_note() should either do
> memcpy() and let userspace to decode this (raw) info, or this layout
> should be unified with copy_siginfo_to_user().

And note that we simply do not know what this siginfo contains if
si_code < 0. Again, please look at copy_siginfo_to_user().

> Note also that we do not expose the upper bits of si_code to user-space,
> probably coredump should do the same, I dunno.

If it was sent by kernel, I meant.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-13 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-12 23:38 [PATCH 1/2] coredump: pass siginfo_t* to do_coredump() and below, not merely signr Denys Vlasenko
2012-09-12 23:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] coredump: add a new elf note with siginfo fields of the signal Denys Vlasenko
2012-09-13 15:36   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-09-13 15:52     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2012-09-13 17:25       ` Roland McGrath
2012-09-17 10:39         ` Pedro Alves
2012-09-14 12:27     ` Denys Vlasenko
2012-09-14 16:38       ` Roland McGrath
2012-09-13 15:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] coredump: pass siginfo_t* to do_coredump() and below, not merely signr Oleg Nesterov
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2012-09-13 14:31 [PATCH 2/2] coredump: add a new elf note with siginfo fields of the signal Jonathan M. Foote

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