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author | Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com> | 2012-07-30 14:42:23 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-07-30 17:25:20 -0700 |
commit | 108ceeb020bb3558fe175a3fc8b60fd6c1a2a279 (patch) | |
tree | 26b99cdd883b88e9a9dfba20e4f4481de72c046f /fs/exec.c | |
parent | 0f20784d4ba3f88ca33b703b23372d8ccf6dbd42 (diff) | |
download | lwn-108ceeb020bb3558fe175a3fc8b60fd6c1a2a279.tar.gz lwn-108ceeb020bb3558fe175a3fc8b60fd6c1a2a279.zip |
coredump: fix wrong comments on core limits of pipe coredump case
In commit 898b374af6f7 ("exec: replace call_usermodehelper_pipe with use
of umh init function and resolve limit"), the core limits recursive
check value was changed from 0 to 1, but the corresponding comments were
not updated.
Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/exec.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/exec.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 5af8390e0fae..3684353ebd5f 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -2174,15 +2174,16 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs) } if (cprm.limit == 1) { - /* + /* See umh_pipe_setup() which sets RLIMIT_CORE = 1. + * * Normally core limits are irrelevant to pipes, since * we're not writing to the file system, but we use - * cprm.limit of 1 here as a speacial value. Any - * non-1 limit gets set to RLIM_INFINITY below, but - * a limit of 0 skips the dump. This is a consistent - * way to catch recursive crashes. We can still crash - * if the core_pattern binary sets RLIM_CORE = !1 - * but it runs as root, and can do lots of stupid things + * cprm.limit of 1 here as a speacial value, this is a + * consistent way to catch recursive crashes. + * We can still crash if the core_pattern binary sets + * RLIM_CORE = !1, but it runs as root, and can do + * lots of stupid things. + * * Note that we use task_tgid_vnr here to grab the pid * of the process group leader. That way we get the * right pid if a thread in a multi-threaded |