Re: [git pull] coredump infoleak fix

[Al Viro]

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:19:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:17 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Might make sense to change the summary of that pull request to something
> > like
> >         make sure we don't forget to report the xstate components that happen
> > to be in init state - both for coredump and for PTRACE_GETREGSET
> 
> Note that this has nothing to do with x86 per se.
> 
> It's more about ->getregs() being a horrid interface, and being easy
> to get wrong in general. The fact that xstate is complex is just one
> such trigger.

The only one I've ran into so far, fortunately...  Almost all instances
write sequentially; the only exceptions are this one (buggy) and ia64
horrors with unwind.

I certainly agree that ->get() is an atrocity...