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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2012-05-15 17:21:26 +1000
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2012-05-15 17:21:26 +1000
commitb29e2679d0da91c60d3ac190d9c3bd65ac2f68c5 (patch)
tree518ec8f4bfd316e91bcc30f434edb78529557eba /fs/binfmt_elf.c
parent8a63b1994c500d4825ee73dc71502deffe5b135b (diff)
parent4bb2d1009f671815870e8f78e826e4f9071392a7 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
Merge mainline to add prerequisite for ARM ux500 crypto support.
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/binfmt_elf.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/binfmt_elf.c30
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 81878b78c9d..504b6eee50a 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1093,6 +1093,29 @@ out:
*/
/*
+ * The purpose of always_dump_vma() is to make sure that special kernel mappings
+ * that are useful for post-mortem analysis are included in every core dump.
+ * In that way we ensure that the core dump is fully interpretable later
+ * without matching up the same kernel and hardware config to see what PC values
+ * meant. These special mappings include - vDSO, vsyscall, and other
+ * architecture specific mappings
+ */
+static bool always_dump_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ /* Any vsyscall mappings? */
+ if (vma == get_gate_vma(vma->vm_mm))
+ return true;
+ /*
+ * arch_vma_name() returns non-NULL for special architecture mappings,
+ * such as vDSO sections.
+ */
+ if (arch_vma_name(vma))
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
+/*
* Decide what to dump of a segment, part, all or none.
*/
static unsigned long vma_dump_size(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
@@ -1100,10 +1123,13 @@ static unsigned long vma_dump_size(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
{
#define FILTER(type) (mm_flags & (1UL << MMF_DUMP_##type))
- /* The vma can be set up to tell us the answer directly. */
- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_ALWAYSDUMP)
+ /* always dump the vdso and vsyscall sections */
+ if (always_dump_vma(vma))
goto whole;
+ if (vma->vm_flags & VM_NODUMP)
+ return 0;
+
/* Hugetlb memory check */
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB) {
if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) && FILTER(HUGETLB_SHARED))