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yaml
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r: 198737
b: refs/heads/master
c: 898b374
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  198735: 120599c
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: a06a4dc3a08201ff6a8a958f935b3cbf7744115f
+refs/heads/master: 898b374af6f71041bd3bceebe257e564f3f1d458

trunk/fs/exec.c

@@ -1787,6 +1787,50 @@ static void wait_for_dump_helpers(struct file *file)
 }
 
 
+/*
+ * uhm_pipe_setup
+ * helper function to customize the process used
+ * to collect the core in userspace.  Specifically
+ * it sets up a pipe and installs it as fd 0 (stdin)
+ * for the process.  Returns 0 on success, or
+ * PTR_ERR on failure.
+ * Note that it also sets the core limit to 1.  This
+ * is a special value that we use to trap recursive
+ * core dumps
+ */
+static int umh_pipe_setup(struct subprocess_info *info)
+{
+	struct file *rp, *wp;
+	struct fdtable *fdt;
+	struct coredump_params *cp = (struct coredump_params *)info->data;
+	struct files_struct *cf = current->files;
+
+	wp = create_write_pipe(0);
+	if (IS_ERR(wp))
+		return PTR_ERR(wp);
+
+	rp = create_read_pipe(wp, 0);
+	if (IS_ERR(rp)) {
+		free_write_pipe(wp);
+		return PTR_ERR(rp);
+	}
+
+	cp->file = wp;
+
+	sys_close(0);
+	fd_install(0, rp);
+	spin_lock(&cf->file_lock);
+	fdt = files_fdtable(cf);
+	FD_SET(0, fdt->open_fds);
+	FD_CLR(0, fdt->close_on_exec);
+	spin_unlock(&cf->file_lock);
+
+	/* and disallow core files too */
+	current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_CORE] = (struct rlimit){1, 1};
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	struct core_state core_state;
@@ -1874,23 +1918,23 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
 		goto fail_unlock;
 
  	if (ispipe) {
-		if (cprm.limit == 0) {
+		if (cprm.limit == 1) {
 			/*
 			 * Normally core limits are irrelevant to pipes, since
 			 * we're not writing to the file system, but we use
-			 * cprm.limit of 0 here as a speacial value. Any
-			 * non-zero limit gets set to RLIM_INFINITY below, but
+			 * cprm.limit of 1 here as a speacial value. Any
+			 * non-1 limit gets set to RLIM_INFINITY below, but
 			 * a limit of 0 skips the dump.  This is a consistent
 			 * way to catch recursive crashes.  We can still crash
-			 * if the core_pattern binary sets RLIM_CORE =  !0
+			 * if the core_pattern binary sets RLIM_CORE =  !1
 			 * but it runs as root, and can do lots of stupid things
 			 * Note that we use task_tgid_vnr here to grab the pid
 			 * of the process group leader.  That way we get the
 			 * right pid if a thread in a multi-threaded
 			 * core_pattern process dies.
 			 */
 			printk(KERN_WARNING
-				"Process %d(%s) has RLIMIT_CORE set to 0\n",
+				"Process %d(%s) has RLIMIT_CORE set to 1\n",
 				task_tgid_vnr(current), current->comm);
 			printk(KERN_WARNING "Aborting core\n");
 			goto fail_unlock;
@@ -1914,8 +1958,13 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
 		cprm.limit = RLIM_INFINITY;
 
 		/* SIGPIPE can happen, but it's just never processed */
-		if (call_usermodehelper_pipe(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
-				&cprm.file)) {
+		cprm.file = NULL;
+		if (call_usermodehelper_fns(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
+					    UMH_WAIT_EXEC, umh_pipe_setup,
+					    NULL, &cprm)) {
+			if (cprm.file)
+				filp_close(cprm.file, NULL);
+
  			printk(KERN_INFO "Core dump to %s pipe failed\n",
 			       corename);
 			goto fail_dropcount;

trunk/include/linux/kmod.h

@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ struct subprocess_info {
 	char **envp;
 	enum umh_wait wait;
 	int retval;
-	struct file *stdin;
 	int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info);
 	void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info);
 	void *data;
@@ -75,8 +74,6 @@ struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,
 /* Set various pieces of state into the subprocess_info structure */
 void call_usermodehelper_setkeys(struct subprocess_info *info,
 				 struct key *session_keyring);
-int call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe(struct subprocess_info *sub_info,
-				  struct file **filp);
 void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info,
 		    int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info),
 		    void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info),
@@ -132,10 +129,6 @@ call_usermodehelper_keys(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
 
 extern void usermodehelper_init(void);
 
-struct file;
-extern int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char *argv[], char *envp[],
-				    struct file **filp);
-
 extern int usermodehelper_disable(void);
 extern void usermodehelper_enable(void);
 

trunk/kernel/kmod.c

@@ -147,23 +147,6 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
 	commit_creds(sub_info->cred);
 	sub_info->cred = NULL;
 
-	/* Install input pipe when needed */
-	if (sub_info->stdin) {
-		struct files_struct *f = current->files;
-		struct fdtable *fdt;
-		/* no races because files should be private here */
-		sys_close(0);
-		fd_install(0, sub_info->stdin);
-		spin_lock(&f->file_lock);
-		fdt = files_fdtable(f);
-		FD_SET(0, fdt->open_fds);
-		FD_CLR(0, fdt->close_on_exec);
-		spin_unlock(&f->file_lock);
-
-		/* and disallow core files too */
-		current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_CORE] = (struct rlimit){0, 0};
-	}
-
 	/* We can run anywhere, unlike our parent keventd(). */
 	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpu_all_mask);
 
@@ -428,35 +411,6 @@ void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setfns);
 
-/**
- * call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe - set up a pipe to be used for stdin
- * @sub_info: a subprocess_info returned by call_usermodehelper_setup
- * @filp: set to the write-end of a pipe
- *
- * This constructs a pipe, and sets the read end to be the stdin of the
- * subprocess, and returns the write-end in *@filp.
- */
-int call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe(struct subprocess_info *sub_info,
-				  struct file **filp)
-{
-	struct file *f;
-
-	f = create_write_pipe(0);
-	if (IS_ERR(f))
-		return PTR_ERR(f);
-	*filp = f;
-
-	f = create_read_pipe(f, 0);
-	if (IS_ERR(f)) {
-		free_write_pipe(*filp);
-		return PTR_ERR(f);
-	}
-	sub_info->stdin = f;
-
-	return 0;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe);
-
 /**
  * call_usermodehelper_exec - start a usermode application
  * @sub_info: information about the subprocessa
@@ -504,42 +458,6 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_exec);
 
-/**
- * call_usermodehelper_pipe - call a usermode helper process with a pipe stdin
- * @path: path to usermode executable
- * @argv: arg vector for process
- * @envp: environment for process
- * @filp: set to the write-end of a pipe
- *
- * This is a simple wrapper which executes a usermode-helper function
- * with a pipe as stdin.  It is implemented entirely in terms of
- * lower-level call_usermodehelper_* functions.
- */
-int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
-			     struct file **filp)
-{
-	struct subprocess_info *sub_info;
-	int ret;
-
-	sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp,
-					     GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (sub_info == NULL)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	ret = call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe(sub_info, filp);
-	if (ret < 0) {
-		call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
-		return ret;
-	}
-
-	ret = call_usermodehelper_exec(sub_info, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
-	if (ret < 0)	/* Failed to execute helper, close pipe */
-		filp_close(*filp, NULL);
-
-	return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_pipe);
-
 void __init usermodehelper_init(void)
 {
 	khelper_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("khelper");