From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:08:34 +0000 (-0700) Subject: do_coredump: fix the "ispipe" error check X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=99b64567486716d18b2156cad188d86478816e4f;p=GitHub%2Fexynos8895%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal8895.git do_coredump: fix the "ispipe" error check do_coredump() assumes that if format_corename() fails it should return -ENOMEM. This is not true, for example cn_print_exe_file() can propagate the error from d_path. Even if it was true, this is too fragile. Change the code to check "ispipe < 0". Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Reviewed-by: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 27d487f913d3..f8fad7fc0e5f 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -2133,16 +2133,16 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs) ispipe = format_corename(&cn, signr); - if (ispipe == -ENOMEM) { - printk(KERN_WARNING "format_corename failed\n"); - printk(KERN_WARNING "Aborting core\n"); - goto fail_corename; - } - if (ispipe) { int dump_count; char **helper_argv; + if (ispipe < 0) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "format_corename failed\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING "Aborting core\n"); + goto fail_corename; + } + if (cprm.limit == 1) { /* * Normally core limits are irrelevant to pipes, since