coredump masking: add an interface for core dump filter

This patch adds an interface to set/reset flags which determines each memory
segment should be dumped or not when a core file is generated.

/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter file is provided to access the flags.  You can
change the flag status for a particular process by writing to or reading from
the file.

The flag status is inherited to the child process when it is created.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 89 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 49b3ab0175e..3c77d5a64e7 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
 #include <linux/poll.h>
 #include <linux/nsproxy.h>
 #include <linux/oom.h>
+#include <linux/elf.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 
 /* NOTE:
@@ -1785,6 +1786,91 @@ static const struct inode_operations proc_attr_dir_inode_operations = {
 
 #endif
 
+#if defined(USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP) && defined(CONFIG_ELF_CORE)
+static ssize_t proc_coredump_filter_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
+					 size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	struct task_struct *task = get_proc_task(file->f_dentry->d_inode);
+	struct mm_struct *mm;
+	char buffer[PROC_NUMBUF];
+	size_t len;
+	int ret;
+
+	if (!task)
+		return -ESRCH;
+
+	ret = 0;
+	mm = get_task_mm(task);
+	if (mm) {
+		len = snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%08lx\n",
+			       ((mm->flags & MMF_DUMP_FILTER_MASK) >>
+				MMF_DUMP_FILTER_SHIFT));
+		mmput(mm);
+		ret = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, buffer, len);
+	}
+
+	put_task_struct(task);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static ssize_t proc_coredump_filter_write(struct file *file,
+					  const char __user *buf,
+					  size_t count,
+					  loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	struct task_struct *task;
+	struct mm_struct *mm;
+	char buffer[PROC_NUMBUF], *end;
+	unsigned int val;
+	int ret;
+	int i;
+	unsigned long mask;
+
+	ret = -EFAULT;
+	memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer));
+	if (count > sizeof(buffer) - 1)
+		count = sizeof(buffer) - 1;
+	if (copy_from_user(buffer, buf, count))
+		goto out_no_task;
+
+	ret = -EINVAL;
+	val = (unsigned int)simple_strtoul(buffer, &end, 0);
+	if (*end == '\n')
+		end++;
+	if (end - buffer == 0)
+		goto out_no_task;
+
+	ret = -ESRCH;
+	task = get_proc_task(file->f_dentry->d_inode);
+	if (!task)
+		goto out_no_task;
+
+	ret = end - buffer;
+	mm = get_task_mm(task);
+	if (!mm)
+		goto out_no_mm;
+
+	for (i = 0, mask = 1; i < MMF_DUMP_FILTER_BITS; i++, mask <<= 1) {
+		if (val & mask)
+			set_bit(i + MMF_DUMP_FILTER_SHIFT, &mm->flags);
+		else
+			clear_bit(i + MMF_DUMP_FILTER_SHIFT, &mm->flags);
+	}
+
+	mmput(mm);
+ out_no_mm:
+	put_task_struct(task);
+ out_no_task:
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static const struct file_operations proc_coredump_filter_operations = {
+	.read		= proc_coredump_filter_read,
+	.write		= proc_coredump_filter_write,
+};
+#endif
+
 /*
  * /proc/self:
  */
@@ -2005,6 +2091,9 @@ static const struct pid_entry tgid_base_stuff[] = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION
 	REG("make-it-fail", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, fault_inject),
 #endif
+#if defined(USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP) && defined(CONFIG_ELF_CORE)
+	REG("coredump_filter", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, coredump_filter),
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
 	INF("io",	S_IRUGO, pid_io_accounting),
 #endif