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fs/proc: Report eip/esp in /prod/PID/stat for coredumping
Commit 0a1eb2d ("fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in /proc/PID/stat") stopped reporting eip/esp because it is racy and dangerous for executing tasks. The comment adds: As far as I know, there are no use programs that make any material use of these fields, so just get rid of them. However, existing userspace core-dump-handler applications (for example, minicoredumper) are using these fields since they provide an excellent cross-platform interface to these valuable pointers. So that commit introduced a user space visible regression. Partially revert the change and make the readout possible for tasks with the proper permissions and only if the target task has the PF_DUMPCORE flag set. Fixes: 0a1eb2d ("fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in> /proc/PID/stat") Reported-by: Marco Felsch <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Tycho Andersen <[email protected]> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> Cc: Linux API <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
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