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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
	Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc@redhat.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] coredump: add support for %d=__get_dumpable() in core name
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:25:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120913152559.d0a9ade0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120913172817.GA11337@redhat.com>

On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:28:17 +0200
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787135

Needs a RH bugzilla account, so no Reported-by: for you!

> Some coredump handlers want to create a core file in a way compatible
> with standard behavior. Standard behavior with fs.suid_dumpable = 2
> is to create core file with uid=gid=0. However, there was no way for
> coredump handler to know that the process being dumped was suid'ed.
> 
> This patch adds the new %d specifier for format_corename() which
> simply reports __get_dumpable(mm->flags), this is compatible with
> /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable we already have.

Please prepare an update to Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt:core_pattern?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-13 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-13 17:28 [PATCH -mm] coredump: add support for %d=__get_dumpable() in core name Oleg Nesterov
2012-09-13 18:01 ` Neil Horman
2012-09-13 22:25 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-09-14 12:30   ` [PATCH -mm] coredump-add-support-for-%d=__get_dumpable-in-core-name-fix Oleg Nesterov
2012-09-14 12:43   ` [PATCH] coredump: use SUID_DUMPABLE_ENABLED rather than hardcoded 1 Oleg Nesterov

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