From: Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
earl_chew@agilent.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:13:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248880382.23840.78.camel@quest> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090622172818.GB14673@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
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On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 13:28 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> 2) Allow for the kernel to wait for a core_pattern process to complete. One of
> the things core_pattern processes might do is interrogate the status of a
> crashing process via its /proc/pid directory. To ensure that that directory is
> not removed prematurely, we wait for the process to exit prior to cleaning it
> up.
>
Would this mean that the kernel would wait for the pattern process to
complete before PANIC in the case of init core dumping?
I'd find that useful :-)
Scott
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Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-22 17:28 [PATCH] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern Neil Horman
2009-06-25 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-26 1:49 ` Neil Horman
2009-06-26 10:48 ` Neil Horman
2009-06-26 16:20 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-26 17:30 ` Neil Horman
2009-06-28 19:31 ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-28 20:52 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-28 21:00 ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-28 21:18 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-28 21:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-28 21:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-28 21:48 ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-28 22:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-29 9:15 ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-28 21:52 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-26 18:00 ` Neil Horman
2009-06-26 18:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern: recursive dump detection Neil Horman
2009-06-26 16:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-26 20:24 ` Neil Horman
2009-06-26 19:14 ` [PATCH 0/2] do_coredump: misc cleanups Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-26 19:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] do_coredump: factor out put_cred() calls Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-26 22:40 ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-26 20:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-26 19:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] do_coredump: move !ispipe code into "else" branch Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-26 20:18 ` Q: do_coredump() && d_unhashed() Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-26 22:57 ` [PATCH 0/2] do_coredump: misc cleanups Neil Horman
2009-06-26 19:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern: recursive dump detection Andrew Morton
2009-06-26 20:17 ` Neil Horman
2009-06-26 18:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern: wait for core collectors Neil Horman
2009-06-26 16:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-26 20:20 ` Neil Horman
2009-06-29 0:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern (v3) Neil Horman
2009-06-29 0:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Neil Horman
2009-06-28 22:24 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-28 23:24 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-29 2:36 ` Neil Horman
2009-06-28 23:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-29 10:21 ` Neil Horman
2009-06-30 0:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-29 0:32 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Neil Horman
2009-06-30 17:38 ` [PATCH 0/3] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern (v4) Neil Horman
2009-06-30 17:42 ` [PATCH 1/3] exec: Make do_coredump more resilient to recursive crashes (v4) Neil Horman
2009-06-30 17:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] exec: let do_coredump limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes (v4) Neil Horman
2009-06-30 17:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] exec: Allow do_coredump to wait for user space pipe readers to complete (v4) Neil Horman
2009-07-01 5:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-01 10:31 ` Neil Horman
2009-07-01 12:25 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-01 14:12 ` Neil Horman
2009-07-01 14:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-01 15:26 ` [PATCH 0/3] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern (v5) Neil Horman
2009-07-01 15:30 ` [PATCH 1/3] exec: Make do_coredump more resilient to recursive crashes (v5) Neil Horman
2009-07-01 15:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] exec: let do_coredump limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes (v5) Neil Horman
2009-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] exec: Allow do_coredump to wait for user space pipe readers to complete (v5) Neil Horman
2009-07-01 16:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-01 18:19 ` Neil Horman
2009-07-01 18:28 ` [PATCH 0/3] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern (v6) Neil Horman
2009-07-01 18:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] exec: Make do_coredump more resilient to recursive crashes (v6) Neil Horman
2009-07-01 18:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] exec: let do_coredump limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes (v6) Neil Horman
2009-07-01 18:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] exec: Allow do_coredump to wait for user space pipe readers to complete (v6) Neil Horman
2009-07-02 8:29 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-02 10:29 ` Neil Horman
2009-07-02 11:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-02 14:44 ` Neil Horman
2009-07-02 15:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-02 17:53 ` Neil Horman
2009-07-03 10:10 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-02 22:57 ` [PATCH 0/3] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern (v7) Neil Horman
2009-07-02 22:59 ` [PATCH 1/3] exec: Make do_coredump more resilient to recursive crashes (v7) Neil Horman
2009-07-02 23:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] exec: let do_coredump limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes (v7) Neil Horman
2009-07-02 23:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] exec: Allow do_coredump to wait for user space pipe readers to complete (v7) Neil Horman
2009-07-03 10:16 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-03 10:44 ` [PATCH 0/3] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern (v8) Neil Horman
2009-07-03 10:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] exec: Make do_coredump more resilient to recursive crashes (v8) Neil Horman
2009-07-07 16:14 ` Neil Horman
2009-07-03 10:51 ` [PATCH 2/3] exec: let do_coredump limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes (v8) Neil Horman
2009-07-07 16:15 ` Neil Horman
2009-07-03 10:52 ` [PATCH 3/3] exec: Allow do_coredump to wait for user space pipe readers to complete (v8) Neil Horman
2009-07-07 16:19 ` Neil Horman
2009-07-07 16:35 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-07 16:13 ` [PATCH 0/3] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern (v8) Neil Horman
2009-07-20 15:49 ` [PATCH 0/3] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern (v9) Neil Horman
2009-07-20 16:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] exec: Make do_coredump more resilient to recursive crashes (v9) Neil Horman
2009-07-20 16:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] exec: let do_coredump limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes (v9) Neil Horman
2009-08-07 17:08 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-07-20 16:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] exec: Allow do_coredump to wait for user space pipe readers to complete (v9) Neil Horman
2009-07-29 15:13 ` Scott James Remnant [this message]
2009-07-29 20:18 ` [PATCH] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern Neil Horman
2009-07-31 20:20 ` Scott James Remnant
2009-08-01 13:41 ` Neil Horman
2009-08-01 18:28 ` Scott James Remnant
2009-08-02 0:22 ` Neil Horman
2009-08-02 13:49 ` Scott James Remnant
2009-08-02 23:50 ` Neil Horman
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