Don't dump task struct in a.out core-dumps
akiphie points out that a.out core-dumps have that odd task struct
dumping that was never used and was never really a good idea (it goes
back into the mists of history, probably the original core-dumping
code). Just remove it.
Also do the access_ok() check on dump_write(). It probably doesn't
matter (since normal filesystems all seem to do it anyway), but he
points out that it's normally done by the VFS layer, so ...
[ I suspect that we should possibly do "vfs_write()" instead of
calling ->write directly. That also does the whole fsnotify and write
statistics thing, which may or may not be a good idea. ]
And just to be anal, do this all for the x86-64 32-bit a.out emulation
code too, even though it's not enabled (and won't currently even
compile)
Reported-by: akiphie <akiphie@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/coredump.h b/include/linux/coredump.h
index 8ba66a9..59579cf 100644
--- a/include/linux/coredump.h
+++ b/include/linux/coredump.h
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
*/
static inline int dump_write(struct file *file, const void *addr, int nr)
{
- return file->f_op->write(file, addr, nr, &file->f_pos) == nr;
+ return access_ok(VERIFY_READ, addr, nr) && file->f_op->write(file, addr, nr, &file->f_pos) == nr;
}
static inline int dump_seek(struct file *file, loff_t off)