Re: [PATCH] coredump: Fix the setting of PF_DUMPCORE

[Oleg Nesterov]

OOPS. Thanks a lot Silesh.

Hopefully Andrew can take this patch. And it probably needs
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.10+

On 07/11, Silesh C V wrote:
>
> commit 079148b91 (coredump: factor out the setting of PF_DUMPCORE)
> cleaned up the setting of PF_DUMPCORE by removing it from all the
> linux_binfmt->core_dump() and moving it to zap_threads().But this
> ended up clearing all the previously set flags. This causes issues
> during core generation when tsk->flags is checked again
> (eg. for PF_USED_MATH to dump floating point registers). Fix this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Silesh C V <svellattu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
>  fs/coredump.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
> index 0b2528f..a93f7e6 100644
> --- a/fs/coredump.c
> +++ b/fs/coredump.c
> @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ static int zap_threads(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
>  	if (unlikely(nr < 0))
>  		return nr;
>  
> -	tsk->flags = PF_DUMPCORE;
> +	tsk->flags |= PF_DUMPCORE;
>  	if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == nr + 1)
>  		goto done;
>  	/*
> -- 
> 1.8.1.2
> 

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