coredump: elf_core_dump: skip kernel threads
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:47:40 +0000 (01:47 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:53:39 +0000 (10:53 -0700)
commit24d5288f06ed8b3a368eba967d587cdb012dfdf7
tree77844e275f2e3bcdc64427e64633e82f0207476d
parent15b9f360c0316c06d37c09b02d85565edbaf9dd3
coredump: elf_core_dump: skip kernel threads

linux_binfmt->core_dump() runs before the process does exit_aio(), this
means that we can hit the kernel thread which shares the same ->mm.
Afaics, nothing really bad can happen, but perhaps it makes sense to fix
this minor bug.

It is sad we have to iterate over all threads in system and use
GFP_ATOMIC.  Hopefully we can kill theses ugly do_each_thread()s, but this
needs some nontrivial changes in mm_struct and do_coredump.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/binfmt_elf.c
fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c