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Eric W. Biederman 9230738308 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>
2021-10-06 11:28:39 -05:00
arch ptrace: Remove the unnecessary arguments from arch_ptrace_stop 2021-10-06 11:27:41 -05:00
block block-5.15-2021-09-11 2021-09-11 10:19:51 -07:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-08-30 12:57:10 -07:00
Documentation An assortment of improvements for auxdisplay: 2021-09-12 16:00:49 -07:00
drivers An assortment of improvements for auxdisplay: 2021-09-12 16:00:49 -07:00
fs coredump: Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core 2021-10-06 11:28:39 -05:00
include coredump: Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core 2021-10-06 11:28:39 -05:00
init More tracing updates for 5.15: 2021-09-09 13:11:15 -07:00
ipc ARM development updates for 5.15: 2021-09-09 13:25:49 -07:00
kernel coredump: Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core 2021-10-06 11:28:39 -05:00
lib Minor fixes to the processing of the bootconfig tree. 2021-09-11 10:16:30 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm coredump: Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core 2021-10-06 11:28:39 -05:00
net virtio,vdpa,vhost: features, fixes 2021-09-11 14:48:42 -07:00
samples kgdb patches for 5.15 2021-09-07 12:08:04 -07:00
scripts RISC-V Patches for the 5.15 Merge Window, Part 2 2021-09-11 14:29:42 -07:00
security Kbuild updates for v5.15 2021-09-03 15:33:47 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.15-rc1 2021-09-09 16:05:10 -07:00
tools perf tools changes for v5.15: 2nd batch 2021-09-12 16:18:15 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Drop unused kvm_dirty_gfn_invalid() 2021-09-06 08:23:46 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update email address of Matthias Fuchs and Thomas Körper 2021-08-19 09:39:44 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Compiler Attributes improvements: 2021-09-12 16:09:26 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.15-rc1 2021-09-12 16:28:37 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.