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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/binfmt_elf.c | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/coredump.c | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/coredump.h | 1 |
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index 29a02daf08a9..422370293cfd 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -2298,6 +2298,7 @@ static int elf_core_dump(struct coredump_params *cprm) goto end_coredump; } } + dump_truncate(cprm); if (!elf_core_write_extra_data(cprm)) goto end_coredump; diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c index e525b6017cdf..ae6b05629ca1 100644 --- a/fs/coredump.c +++ b/fs/coredump.c @@ -833,3 +833,21 @@ int dump_align(struct coredump_params *cprm, int align) return mod ? dump_skip(cprm, align - mod) : 1; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_align); + +/* + * Ensures that file size is big enough to contain the current file + * postion. This prevents gdb from complaining about a truncated file + * if the last "write" to the file was dump_skip. + */ +void dump_truncate(struct coredump_params *cprm) +{ + struct file *file = cprm->file; + loff_t offset; + + if (file->f_op->llseek && file->f_op->llseek != no_llseek) { + offset = file->f_op->llseek(file, 0, SEEK_CUR); + if (i_size_read(file->f_mapping->host) < offset) + do_truncate(file->f_path.dentry, offset, 0, file); + } +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_truncate); diff --git a/include/linux/coredump.h b/include/linux/coredump.h index d016a121a8c4..28ffa94aed6b 100644 --- a/include/linux/coredump.h +++ b/include/linux/coredump.h @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ struct coredump_params; extern int dump_skip(struct coredump_params *cprm, size_t nr); extern int dump_emit(struct coredump_params *cprm, const void *addr, int nr); extern int dump_align(struct coredump_params *cprm, int align); +extern void dump_truncate(struct coredump_params *cprm); #ifdef CONFIG_COREDUMP extern void do_coredump(const siginfo_t *siginfo); #else |