From 72023656961b8c81a168a7a6762d589339d0d7ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Aloni Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:45:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] fs/binfmt_elf.c: prevent a coredump with a large vm_map_count from Oopsing A high setting of max_map_count, and a process core-dumping with a large enough vm_map_count could result in an NT_FILE note not being written, and the kernel crashing immediately later because it has assumed otherwise. Reproduction of the oops-causing bug described here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/30/50 Rge ussue originated in commit 2aa362c49c31 ("coredump: extend core dump note section to contain file names of mapped file") from Oct 4, 2012. This patch make that section optional in that case. fill_files_note() should signify the error, and also let the info struct in elf_core_dump() be zero-initialized so that we can check for the optionally written note. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid abusing E2BIG, remove a couple of not-really-needed local variables] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparse warning] Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni Cc: Al Viro Cc: Denys Vlasenko Reported-by: Martin MOKREJS Tested-by: Martin MOKREJS Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed