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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Jacob Lalonde <jalalonde@meta.com>, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
	 "Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	 Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>,
	 Jacob Lalonde <jalalonde@fb.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	 linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	 "Christian Brauner (Amutable)" <brauner@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 01/11] selftests/coredump: discard the right amount after the coredump request
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:27:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260811-work-coredump-sparse-v1-1-cd3e8b1e356d@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260811-work-coredump-sparse-v1-0-cd3e8b1e356d@kernel.org>

read_coredump_req() gets the leftover wrong twice.

It takes the absolute difference of the two sizes, so a test binary that
knows a larger struct coredump_req than the kernel sends tries to discard
bytes that were never sent. And it hands recv() sizeof(buffer) instead of
the number of bytes it wants. So MSG_WAITALL waits for a whole page.
Either one blocks until the kernel closes the socket. Which it won't
because it is waiting for the coredump ack...

Its benign today because struct coredump_req hasn't grown. But let's fix
it for the future. Compute the leftover as what the kernel sent beyond
what was consumed.

Fixes: 59cd658eaf40 ("selftests/coredump: add coredump server selftests")
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/coredump/coredump_test_helpers.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/coredump/coredump_test_helpers.c b/tools/testing/selftests/coredump/coredump_test_helpers.c
index 2a20faf9cb0a..524fa5370593 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/coredump/coredump_test_helpers.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/coredump/coredump_test_helpers.c
@@ -235,10 +235,10 @@ bool read_coredump_req(int fd, struct coredump_req *req)
 	fprintf(stderr, "Read coredump request with size %u and mask 0x%llx\n",
 		req->size, (unsigned long long)req->mask);
 
-	if (user_size > kernel_size)
-		remaining_size = user_size - kernel_size;
-	else
+	if (kernel_size > user_size)
 		remaining_size = kernel_size - user_size;
+	else
+		remaining_size = 0;
 
 	if (PAGE_SIZE <= remaining_size)
 		return false;
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ bool read_coredump_req(int fd, struct coredump_req *req)
 	if (remaining_size) {
 		char buffer[PAGE_SIZE];
 
-		ret = recv(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer), MSG_WAITALL);
+		ret = recv(fd, buffer, remaining_size, MSG_WAITALL);
 		if (ret != remaining_size)
 			return false;
 		fprintf(stderr, "Discarded %zu bytes of data after coredump request\n", remaining_size);

-- 
2.53.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-11 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-11 15:27 [PATCH 00/11] coredump: allow to create sparse coredumps on the coredump socket Christian Brauner
2026-08-11 15:27 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2026-08-11 15:27 ` [PATCH 02/11] selftests/coredump: collapse the expected request check into the helper Christian Brauner
2026-08-11 15:27 ` [PATCH 03/11] coredump: pin the protocol struct sizes Christian Brauner
2026-08-11 15:27 ` [PATCH 04/11] coredump: move the negotiated mask into struct coredump_params Christian Brauner
2026-08-11 15:27 ` [PATCH 05/11] coredump: deduplicate the to_skip flush Christian Brauner
2026-08-11 15:27 ` [PATCH 06/11] coredump: add COREDUMP_HEADER to the coredump socket protocol Christian Brauner
2026-08-11 15:27 ` [PATCH 07/11] coredump: add COREDUMP_SPARSE " Christian Brauner
2026-08-11 15:27 ` [PATCH 08/11] tools: sync coredump.h header Christian Brauner
2026-08-11 15:27 ` [PATCH 09/11] coredump: frame the coredump when COREDUMP_HEADER is negotiated Christian Brauner
2026-08-11 15:27 ` [PATCH 10/11] coredump: describe the holes when COREDUMP_SPARSE " Christian Brauner
2026-08-11 15:27 ` [PATCH 11/11] selftests/coredump: test COREDUMP_HEADER and COREDUMP_SPARSE Christian Brauner
2026-08-11 19:07 ` [PATCH 00/11] coredump: allow to create sparse coredumps on the coredump socket Jann Horn
2026-08-11 19:39   ` Jann Horn
2026-08-11 20:55     ` Christian Brauner

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