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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jirislaby@gmail.com, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: [PATCH] do_coredump: fix the "ispipe" error check
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:35:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110607183542.GA5559@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110607181607.GA3732@redhat.com>

do_coredump() assumes that if format_corename() fails it should
return -ENOMEM. This is not true, for example cn_print_exe_file()
can propagate the error from d_path. Even if it was true, this is
too fragile. Change the code to check "ispipe < 0".

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---

 fs/exec.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- ptrace/fs/exec.c~corename_errcode	2011-06-07 19:44:30.000000000 +0200
+++ ptrace/fs/exec.c	2011-06-07 20:20:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -2092,16 +2092,16 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_co
 
 	ispipe = format_corename(&cn, signr);
 
-	if (ispipe == -ENOMEM) {
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "format_corename failed\n");
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "Aborting core\n");
-		goto fail_corename;
-	}
-
  	if (ispipe) {
 		int dump_count;
 		char **helper_argv;
 
+		if (ispipe < 0) {
+			printk(KERN_WARNING "format_corename failed\n");
+			printk(KERN_WARNING "Aborting core\n");
+			goto fail_corename;
+		}
+
 		if (cprm.limit == 1) {
 			/*
 			 * Normally core limits are irrelevant to pipes, since


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-07 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-07 14:30 [PATCH v2 1/2] coredump: use task comm instead of (unknown) Jiri Slaby
2011-06-07 14:30 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] coredump: escape / in hostname and comm Jiri Slaby
2011-08-30 15:21   ` Earl Chew
2011-06-07 18:16 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] coredump: use task comm instead of (unknown) Oleg Nesterov
2011-06-07 18:30   ` Jiri Slaby
2011-06-08 19:26     ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-06-07 18:35   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2011-06-07 19:00     ` [PATCH] do_coredump: fix the "ispipe" error check Jiri Slaby
2011-06-07 19:07     ` Neil Horman

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