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Commit 72023656 authored by Dan Aloni's avatar Dan Aloni Committed by Linus Torvalds
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fs/binfmt_elf.c: prevent a coredump with a large vm_map_count from Oopsing

A high setting of max_map_count, and a process core-dumping with a large
enough vm_map_count could result in an NT_FILE note not being written,
and the kernel crashing immediately later because it has assumed
otherwise.

Reproduction of the oops-causing bug described here:

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/30/50



Rge ussue originated in commit 2aa362c4 ("coredump: extend core dump
note section to contain file names of mapped file") from Oct 4, 2012.

This patch make that section optional in that case.  fill_files_note()
should signify the error, and also let the info struct in
elf_core_dump() be zero-initialized so that we can check for the
optionally written note.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid abusing E2BIG, remove a couple of not-really-needed local variables]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparse warning]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Aloni <alonid@stratoscale.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.lin...
parent 7393dc45
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