fs/proc: Report eip/esp in /prod/PID/stat for coredumping
Commit 0a1eb2d4 ("fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in /proc/PID/stat") stopped reporting eip/esp because it is racy and dangerous for executing tasks. The comment adds: As far as I know, there are no use programs that make any material use of these fields, so just get rid of them. However, existing userspace core-dump-handler applications (for example, minicoredumper) are using these fields since they provide an excellent cross-platform interface to these valuable pointers. So that commit introduced a user space visible regression. Partially revert the change and make the readout possible for tasks with the proper permissions and only if the target task has the PF_DUMPCORE flag set. Fixes: 0a1eb2d4 ("fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in> /proc/PID/stat") Reported-by:Marco Felsch <marco.felsch@preh.de> Signed-off-by:
John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by:
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87poatfwg6.fsf@linutronix.de Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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