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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2021-09-01 11:33:50 -0500
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2021-10-06 11:28:39 -0500
commit92307383082daff5df884a25df9e283efb7ef261 (patch)
treec73d7be83738e56a3ae161c640562563b867549e /kernel/fork.c
parentd67e03e361619b20c51aaef3b7dd1497617c371d (diff)
downloadlinux-92307383082daff5df884a25df9e283efb7ef261.tar.gz
coredump: Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core
Rename coredump_exit_mm to coredump_task_exit and call it from do_exit before PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT, and before any cleanup work for a task happens. This ensures that an accurate copy of the process can be captured in the coredump as no cleanup for the process happens before the coredump completes. This also ensures that PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT will not be visited by any thread until the coredump is complete. Add a new flag PF_POSTCOREDUMP so that tasks that have passed through coredump_task_exit can be recognized and ignored in zap_process. Now that all of the coredumping happens before exit_mm remove code to test for a coredump in progress from mm_release. Replace "may_ptrace_stop()" with a simple test of "current->ptrace". The other tests in may_ptrace_stop all concern avoiding stopping during a coredump. These tests are no longer necessary as it is now guaranteed that fatal_signal_pending will be set if the code enters ptrace_stop during a coredump. The code in ptrace_stop is guaranteed not to stop if fatal_signal_pending returns true. Until this change "ptrace_event(PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT)" could call ptrace_stop without fatal_signal_pending being true, as signals are dequeued in get_signal before calling do_exit. This is no longer an issue as "ptrace_event(PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT)" is no longer reached until after the coredump completes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/874kaax26c.fsf@disp2133 Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 38681ad44c76bc..9bd9f2da9e413b 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1392,8 +1392,7 @@ static void mm_release(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
* purposes.
*/
if (tsk->clear_child_tid) {
- if (!(tsk->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP) &&
- atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1) {
+ if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1) {
/*
* We don't check the error code - if userspace has
* not set up a proper pointer then tough luck.