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author | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2010-10-30 12:35:11 +0100 |
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committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2010-10-30 12:35:11 +0100 |
commit | 67577927e8d7a1f4b09b4992df640eadc6aacb36 (patch) | |
tree | 2e9efe6b5745965faf0dcc084d4613d9356263f9 /fs/exec.c | |
parent | 6fe4c590313133ebd5dadb769031489ff178ece1 (diff) | |
parent | 51f00a471ce8f359627dd99aeac322947a0e491b (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
Conflicts:
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
Merge Grant's device-tree bits so that we can apply the subsequent fixes.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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1 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 828dd2461d6b..6d2b6f936858 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -2014,3 +2014,43 @@ fail_creds: fail: return; } + +/* + * Core dumping helper functions. These are the only things you should + * do on a core-file: use only these functions to write out all the + * necessary info. + */ +int dump_write(struct file *file, const void *addr, int nr) +{ + return access_ok(VERIFY_READ, addr, nr) && file->f_op->write(file, addr, nr, &file->f_pos) == nr; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_write); + +int dump_seek(struct file *file, loff_t off) +{ + int ret = 1; + + if (file->f_op->llseek && file->f_op->llseek != no_llseek) { + if (file->f_op->llseek(file, off, SEEK_CUR) < 0) + return 0; + } else { + char *buf = (char *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL); + + if (!buf) + return 0; + while (off > 0) { + unsigned long n = off; + + if (n > PAGE_SIZE) + n = PAGE_SIZE; + if (!dump_write(file, buf, n)) { + ret = 0; + break; + } + off -= n; + } + free_page((unsigned long)buf); + } + return ret; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_seek); |