Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Add process memory layout to coredump file

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Dec 10 2011 - 15:02:48 EST


t cheney <cdmalord@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This patch just add memory layout(same as /proc/pid/maps) to
> coredump file. The layout is appended to corenote segment with
> flag NT_MAPS=7.

Seems like a reasonable idea, but can you please share code with
the proc implementation?

It's a bit unusal to have ASCII in a coredump, but I suppose expressing
this in binary would be somewhat ugly.

> + char *buf = notes->data;
> + size_t core_limit = notes->datasz;
> + gate_vma = get_gate_vma(current->mm);
> +

It seems a bit dubious to do this without locking even in a core dump.

> + for (vma = first_vma(current, gate_vma); vma != NULL;
> + vma = next_vma(vma, gate_vma)) {
> + flags = vma->vm_flags;
> + maps_size += len;
> + if (file) {
> + if (maps_size > core_limit)
> + break;

You have a one-off bug here. Also below.

> + DUMP_WRITE(buf, len, foffset);
> + }


-Andi
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