From: Neil Horman Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:26:36 +0000 (-0700) Subject: core_pattern: fix up a few miscellaneous bugs X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~732 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=323211371073ce4a99b6efc69379589d6a640d35;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git core_pattern: fix up a few miscellaneous bugs Fix do_coredump to detect a crash in the user mode helper process and abort the attempt to recursively dump core to another copy of the helper process, potentially ad-infinitum. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Neil Horman Cc: Cc: Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 6450157062e..cbd183daaad 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -1762,14 +1762,27 @@ int do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs * regs) goto fail_unlock; if (ispipe) { - core_limit = RLIM_INFINITY; helper_argv = argv_split(GFP_KERNEL, corename+1, &helper_argc); /* Terminate the string before the first option */ delimit = strchr(corename, ' '); if (delimit) *delimit = '\0'; + delimit = strrchr(helper_argv[0], '/'); + if (delimit) + delimit++; + else + delimit = helper_argv[0]; + if (!strcmp(delimit, current->comm)) { + printk(KERN_NOTICE "Recursive core dump detected, " + "aborting\n"); + goto fail_unlock; + } + + core_limit = RLIM_INFINITY; + /* SIGPIPE can happen, but it's just never processed */ - if(call_usermodehelper_pipe(corename+1, helper_argv, NULL, &file)) { + if (call_usermodehelper_pipe(corename+1, helper_argv, NULL, + &file)) { printk(KERN_INFO "Core dump to %s pipe failed\n", corename); goto fail_unlock;