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Commit fd7d5627 authored by John Ogness's avatar John Ogness Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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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: default avatarMarco Felsch <marco.felsch@preh.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndy 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: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 97dab2ae
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