fs/coredump.c: log if a core dump is aborted due to changed file permissions
authorDavid Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>
Wed, 8 Sep 2021 03:00:29 +0000 (20:00 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 8 Sep 2021 18:50:27 +0000 (11:50 -0700)
commitdbd9d6f8fa9c3e676e491ac65c7fa10a1af8321f
treeb777e6290ad7c9fbd33737009e5f04400b84cac6
parent98e2e409e76ef7781d8511f997359e9c504a95c1
fs/coredump.c: log if a core dump is aborted due to changed file permissions

For obvious security reasons, a core dump is aborted if the filesystem
cannot preserve ownership or permissions of the dump file.

This affects filesystems like e.g.  vfat, but also something like a 9pfs
share in a Qemu test setup, running as a regular user, depending on the
security model used.  In those cases, the result is an empty core file and
a confused user.

To hopefully save other people a lot of time figuring out the cause, this
patch adds a simple log message for those specific cases.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/|%s/%s/ in printk text]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210701233151.102720-1-david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at
Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/coredump.c