Re: [PATCH 2/2] Made core dump functionality optional

Josh Triplett
2012-07-03T05:09:21Z

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 12:55:52PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: Alex <eshink@gmail.com>
> >
> > Adds an expert Kconfig option, CONFIG_COREDUMP, which allows disabling of core dump.
> > This saves approximately 2.6k in the compiled kernel, and complements CONFIG_ELF_CORE,
> > which now depends on it.
> >
> > CONFIG_COREDUMP also disables coredump-related sysctls, except for suid_dumpable and
> > related functions, which are necessary for ptrace.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
>
> Looks good, just one nitpick: would CONFIG_CORE_DUMP be better than
> CONFIG_COREDUMP?

The kernel seems pretty split on that question, according to git grep;
"coredump" appears sufficiently often that changing the config option
name doesn't seem worth respinning the patch for.

- Josh Triplett