Re: [PATCH -tip v5] tracepoint: Add signal coredump tracepoint

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Fri Mar 19 2010 - 09:36:04 EST


(add Neil)

On 03/19, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>
> void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> struct core_state core_state;
> - char corename[CORENAME_MAX_SIZE + 1];
> + char corename[CORENAME_MAX_SIZE + 1] = "";
> struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
> struct linux_binfmt * binfmt;
> struct inode * inode;
> @@ -1802,6 +1803,7 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
> static atomic_t core_dump_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
> struct coredump_params cprm = {
> .signr = signr,
> + .file = NULL,
> .regs = regs,
> .limit = rlimit(RLIMIT_CORE),
> /*
> @@ -1815,8 +1817,10 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
> audit_core_dumps(signr);
>
> binfmt = mm->binfmt;
> - if (!binfmt || !binfmt->core_dump)
> + if (!binfmt || !binfmt->core_dump) {
> + retval = -ENOSYS;
> goto fail;
> + }

Oh.

Masami, may I ask you to delay these changes a bit?

This patch conflicts very much with other changes (hopefully in -mm soon)
we are doing.

If your patch comes first, we have to redo 12 patches. Besides, this patch
complicates do_coredump() even more while it really needs the cleanups.

Please see
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/96f01d85034ca029/3b6bcb9b2d756dbc
I can send you these patches privately if you wish.

Oleg.

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