From 00ec99da43a7c2aed46c6595aa271b84bb1b1462 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland McGrath Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:13:43 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] core dump: remain dumpable The coredump code always calls set_dumpable(0) when it starts (even if RLIMIT_CORE prevents any core from being dumped). The effect of this (via task_dumpable) is to make /proc/pid/* files owned by root instead of the user, so the user can no longer examine his own process--in a case where there was never any privileged data to protect. This affects e.g. auxv, environ, fd; in Fedora (execshield) kernels, also maps. In practice, you can only notice this when a debugger has requested PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT tracing. set_dumpable was only used in do_coredump for synchronization and not intended for any security purpose. (It doesn't secure anything that wasn't already unsecured when a process dies by SIGTERM instead of SIGQUIT.) This changes do_coredump to check the core_waiters count as the means of synchronization, which is sufficient. Now we leave the "dumpable" bits alone. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed