[PATCH 2/2] Made core dump functionality optional

Alex Kelly
2012-08-01T02:27:26Z

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>
---
fs/Kconfig.binfmt | 8 ++++++++
fs/Makefile | 3 ++-
include/linux/binfmts.h | 4 ++++
init/Kconfig | 1 +
kernel/sysctl.c | 6 +++++-
5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
index 0225742..0efd152 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
+++ b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
@@ -164,3 +164,11 @@ config BINFMT_MISC
You may say M here for module support and later load the module when
you have use for it; the module is called binfmt_misc. If you
don't know what to answer at this point, say Y.
+
+config COREDUMP
+ bool "Enable core dump support" if EXPERT
+ default y
+ help
+ This option enables support for performing core dumps. You almost
+ certainly want to say Y here. Not necessary on systems that never
+ need debugging or only ever run flawless code.
diff --git a/fs/Makefile b/fs/Makefile
index 8938f82..1d7af79 100644
--- a/fs/Makefile
+++ b/fs/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ obj-y := open.o read_write.o file_table.o super.o \
attr.o bad_inode.o file.o filesystems.o namespace.o \
seq_file.o xattr.o libfs.o fs-writeback.o \
pnode.o drop_caches.o splice.o sync.o utimes.o \
- stack.o fs_struct.o statfs.o coredump.o
+ stack.o fs_struct.o statfs.o

ifeq ($(CONFIG_BLOCK),y)
obj-y += buffer.o bio.o block_dev.o direct-io.o mpage.o ioprio.o
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE) += mbcache.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL) += posix_acl.o xattr_acl.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NFS_COMMON) += nfs_common/
obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_ACL) += generic_acl.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_COREDUMP) += coredump.o

obj-$(CONFIG_FHANDLE) += fhandle.o

diff --git a/include/linux/binfmts.h b/include/linux/binfmts.h
index 366422b..00e2e89 100644
--- a/include/linux/binfmts.h
+++ b/include/linux/binfmts.h
@@ -132,7 +132,11 @@ extern int copy_strings_kernel(int argc, const char *const *argv,
struct linux_binprm *bprm);
extern int prepare_bprm_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm);
extern void install_exec_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm);
+#ifdef CONFIG_COREDUMP
extern void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs);
+#else
+static inline void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs) {}
+#endif
extern void set_binfmt(struct linux_binfmt *new);
extern void free_bprm(struct linux_binprm *);

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index d07dcf9..1bd0b52 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1215,6 +1215,7 @@ config BUG
Just say Y.

config ELF_CORE
+ depends on COREDUMP
default y
bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EXPERT
help
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 4ab1187..dc0745f 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -96,10 +96,12 @@
extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory;
extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio;
extern int max_threads;
-extern int core_uses_pid;
extern int suid_dumpable;
+#ifdef CONFIG_COREDUMP
+extern int core_uses_pid;
extern char core_pattern[];
extern unsigned int core_pipe_limit;
+#endif
extern int pid_max;
extern int min_free_kbytes;
extern int pid_max_min, pid_max_max;
@@ -398,6 +400,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
},
+#ifdef CONFIG_COREDUMP
{
.procname = "core_uses_pid",
.data = &core_uses_pid,
@@ -419,6 +422,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
},
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
{
.procname = "tainted",
--
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