Re: [PATCH] proc: report eip and esp for all threads when coredumping

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 22 May 2019 18:16:14 +0200 Jan Luebbe <jlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Commit 0a1eb2d474ed ("fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in
> /proc/PID/stat") stopped reporting eip/esp and commit fd7d56270b52
> ("fs/proc: Report eip/esp in /prod/PID/stat for coredumping")
> reintroduced the feature to fix a regression with userspace core dump
> handlers (such as minicoredumper).
> 
> Because PF_DUMPCORE is only set for the primary thread, this didn't fix
> the original problem for secondary threads. This commit checks
> mm->core_state instead, as already done for /proc/<pid>/status in
> task_core_dumping(). As we have a mm_struct available here anyway, this
> seems to be a clean solution.
> 

Could we please have an explicit and complete description of the
end-user visible effect of this change?

It sounds like we should be backporting this into -stable but without
the above info it's hard to determine this.