Re: [PATCH] coredump: Also dump first pages of non-executable ELF libraries

["Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>]

Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> writes:

> When I rewrote the VMA dumping logic for coredumps, I changed it to
> recognize ELF library mappings based on the file being executable instead
> of the mapping having an ELF header. But turns out, distros ship many ELF
> libraries as non-executable, so the heuristic goes wrong...
>
> Restore the old behavior where FILTER(ELF_HEADERS) dumps the first page of
> any offset-0 readable mapping that starts with the ELF magic.
>
> This fix is technically layer-breaking a bit, because it checks for
> something ELF-specific in fs/coredump.c; but since we probably want to
> share this between standard ELF and FDPIC ELF anyway, I guess it's fine?
> And this also keeps the change small for backporting.

In light of the conflict with my other changes, and in light of the pain
of calling get_user.

Is there any reason why the doesn't unconditionally dump all headers?
Something like the diff below?

I looked in the history and the code was filtering for ELF headers
there already.  I am just thinking this feels like a good idea
regardless of the file format to help verify the file on-disk
is the file we think was mapped.

Eric

diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index 6a97a8ea7295..ef3b03e4cf59 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -1047,8 +1047,7 @@ static unsigned long vma_dump_size(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
         * dump the first page to aid in determining what was mapped here.
         */
        if (FILTER(ELF_HEADERS) &&
-           vma->vm_pgoff == 0 && (vma->vm_flags & VM_READ) &&
-           (READ_ONCE(file_inode(vma->vm_file)->i_mode) & 0111) != 0)
+           vma->vm_pgoff == 0 && (vma->vm_flags & VM_READ))
                return PAGE_SIZE;
 
 #undef FILTER