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authorDave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>2017-01-11 22:25:00 +0300
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2017-01-15 03:32:40 +0300
commit4d22c75d4c7b5c5f4bd31054f09103ee490878fd (patch)
treea58ff1b3bb440af13026891f6ccb38d36fffcb4c /fs/coredump.c
parenta12f1ae61c489076a9aeb90bddca7722bf330df3 (diff)
downloadlinux-4d22c75d4c7b5c5f4bd31054f09103ee490878fd.tar.xz
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 <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/coredump.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/coredump.c18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
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);