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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>,
	"Jonathan M. Foote" <jmfoote@cert.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>,
	Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm v2 2/2] coredump: add a new elf note with siginfo of the signal
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:30:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120918153027.GA21612@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347979995-1452-3-git-send-email-vda.linux@googlemail.com>

On 09/18, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>
> +static void fill_siginfo_note(struct memelfnote *note, siginfo_t *csigdata, siginfo_t *siginfo)
> +{
> +	mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
> +	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
> +	copy_siginfo_to_user((siginfo_t __user *) csigdata, siginfo);
> +	set_fs(old_fs);
> +	fill_note(note, "CORE", NT_SIGINFO, sizeof(*csigdata), csigdata);
> +}

OK, I think this is fine.

But, somehow I forgot about compat tasks when we discussed this before.
Perhaps the code above should do

	if (is_compat_task())
		copy_siginfo_to_user32(...);
	else
		copy_siginfo_to_user(...);

?

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-18 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-18 14:53 [PATCH -mm v2 0/2] coredump: add a new elf note with siginfo of the signal Denys Vlasenko
2012-09-18 14:53 ` [PATCH -mm v2 1/2] coredump: pass siginfo_t* to do_coredump() and below, not merely signr Denys Vlasenko
2012-09-18 14:53 ` [PATCH -mm v2 2/2] coredump: add a new elf note with siginfo of the signal Denys Vlasenko
2012-09-18 15:30   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2012-09-18 16:41     ` Roland McGrath
2012-09-18 16:57       ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-09-19 16:06       ` Denys Vlasenko

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