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Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:00:42 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, earl_chew@...lent.com,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when
	using pipes in core_pattern

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 04:30:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
<snip>

Ok, heres a new version of the changeset, taking into account all of your notes,
Andrew. Patches tested by me on a kernel with your latest -mm patch and it all
works well.

This resolves kernel.org bug 13355:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13355

Change Notes:

1) Split the patch into two smaller patches.  I kept the sysctl with the wait
code for the reasons we discussed earlier.

2) core_dump_count is now statically declared within the scope of the
do_coredump function

3) Commented more clearly the use of the task_tgid_vnr call

4) Made the printk indicating that a crash is over the core dump limit more
usefull

5) Fixed some misc. gramatical, formatting errors

6) Removed the helper_pid variable.  Turns out it wasn't needed with a minor
change to the usermodehelper code.

7) Documented the sysctl in Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt

Regards
Neil

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@...lent.com>
 
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