Re: [PATCH 3/4] coredump: ELF-FDPIC: enable to omit anonymous shared memory

[Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:33:31AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Kawai, Hidehiro <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is coredump_setting_sem a global semaphore?  If so, it prevents concurrent
> > core dumping.
> 
> No, it doesn't.  Look again:
> 
> 	int do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs * regs)
> 	{
> 		<setup vars>
> 
>  >>>>		down_read(&coredump_settings_sem);
> 
> > Additionally, while some process is dumped, writing to
> > coredump_omit_anon_shared of unrelated process will be blocked.
> 
> Yes, but that's probably reasonable.  How likely (a) is a process to coredump,
> and (b) is a coredump to occur simultaneously with someone altering their
> settings?

And (c) altering the setting during a core dump going to produce an
unusable core dump.  I don't think the locking is that difficult to add
and it just makes sense.  I would venture a guess that it will take less
time to actually do the locking than to continue arguing it is not needed
when it clearly appears it is needed for even a small number of cases.

Thanks,
Robin
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