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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: bookjovi@gmail.com
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coredump: fix wrong comments on core limits of pipe coredump case
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:32:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110822133244.GA28449@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1314048011-2824-1-git-send-email-bookjovi@gmail.com>

Ah, I thought you are going to re-do this patch...

On 08/22, bookjovi@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Only core limit 1 can skip dump in ispipe case, not 0.

Yes, but this is (almost) internal hack we use to avoid the recursive
crashes.

> --- a/fs/exec.c
> +++ b/fs/exec.c
> @@ -2163,7 +2163,7 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
>  			 * we're not writing to the file system, but we use
>  			 * cprm.limit of 1 here as a speacial value. Any
>  			 * non-1 limit gets set to RLIM_INFINITY below, but
> -			 * a limit of 0 skips the dump.  This is a consistent
> +			 * a limit of 1 skips the dump.  This is a consistent

I'd suggest to simple remove the "skips the dump" part.

To me, we can also remove the "Note that we use task_tgid_vnr" part,
but feel free to ignore. Every user of task_tgid_vnr() could have the
same comment.

Oleg.


      reply	other threads:[~2011-08-22 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-22 21:20 bookjovi
2011-08-22 13:32 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]

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