From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:56:51 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc vDSO: use VM_ALWAYSDUMP
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3a0cfadb42e0a6dd221aa49232a65d2771063285;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal7580.git

[PATCH] powerpc vDSO: use VM_ALWAYSDUMP

This patch fixes core dumps to include the vDSO vma, which is left out now.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
index a4b28c73bba..ae0ede19879 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -284,6 +284,13 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
 	 * pages though
 	 */
 	vma->vm_flags = VM_READ|VM_EXEC|VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC;
+	/*
+	 * Make sure the vDSO gets into every core dump.
+	 * Dumping its contents makes post-mortem fully interpretable later
+	 * without matching up the same kernel and hardware config to see
+	 * what PC values meant.
+	 */
+	vma->vm_flags |= VM_ALWAYSDUMP;
 	vma->vm_flags |= mm->def_flags;
 	vma->vm_page_prot = protection_map[vma->vm_flags & 0x7];
 	vma->vm_ops = &vdso_vmops;