Commit 7f14daa1 authored Oct 13, 2006 by Petr Vandrovec Committed by Linus Torvalds Oct 13, 2006

[PATCH] Get core dump code to work...



The file based core dump code was broken by pipe changes - a relative
llseek returns the absolute file position on success, not the relative
one, so dump_seek() always failed when invoked with non-zero current
position.

Only success/failure can be tested with relative lseek, we have to trust
kernel that on success we've got right file offset.  With this fix in
place I have finally real core files instead of 1KB fragments...

Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
[ Cleaned it up a bit while here - use SEEK_CUR instead of hardcoding 1 ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 12e36b2f

fs/binfmt_elf.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ static int dump_write(struct file file, const void addr, int nr)
		static int dump_seek(struct file *file, loff_t off)
		{
		if (file->f_op->llseek && file->f_op->llseek != no_llseek) {
		if (file->f_op->llseek(file, off, 1) != off)
		if (file->f_op->llseek(file, off, SEEK_CUR) < 0)
		return 0;
		} else {
		char buf = (char )get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);