From 4d22c75d4c7b5c5f4bd31054f09103ee490878fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Kleikamp Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:25:00 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] coredump: Ensure proper size of sparse core files If the last section of a core file ends with an unmapped or zero page, the size of the file does not correspond with the last dump_skip() call. gdb complains that the file is truncated and can be confusing to users. After all of the vma sections are written, make sure that the file size is no smaller than the current file position. This problem can be demonstrated with gdb's bigcore testcase on the sparc architecture. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 1 + fs/coredump.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/coredump.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index 29a02da..4223702 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 e525b60..ae6b056 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 d016a12..28ffa94 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 -- 2.7.4