Re: [PATCH][CFT] [coredump] don't use __kernel_write() on kmap_local_page()

Sedat Dilek
2022-10-04T06:19:19Z

On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 2:51 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 4:37 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > One variant would be to revert the original patch, put its
> > (hopefully) fixed variant into -next and let it sit there for
> > a while. Another is to put this incremental into -next and
> > merge it into mainline once it gets a sane amount of testing.
>
> Just do the incremental fix. It looks obvious enough ("oops, we need
> to get the pos _after_ we've done any skip-lseeks on the core file")
> that I think it would be just harder to follow a "revert and follow up
> with a fix".
>
> I don't think it needs a ton of extra testing, with Okajima having
> already confirmed it fixes his problem case..
>
> Linus

[ CC Geert ]

There was another patch from Geert concerning the same coredump changes:

[PATCH] coredump: Move dump_emit_page() to kill unused warning

If CONFIG_ELF_CORE is not set:

fs/coredump.c:835:12: error: ‘dump_emit_page’ defined but not used
[-Werror=unused-function]
835 | static int dump_emit_page(struct coredump_params *cprm,
struct page *page)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fix this by moving dump_emit_page() inside the existing section
protected by #ifdef CONFIG_ELF_CORE.

Fixes: 06bbaa6dc53cb720 ("[coredump] don't use __kernel_write() on
kmap_local_page()")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

Please, check yourself!

Best regards,
-Sedat-

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221003090657.2053236-1-geert@linux-m68k.org/