linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/1] coredump: Fix null pointer dereference when kernel.core

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Message-ID: <645fcbdfdd1321ff3e0afaafe7eccfd034e57748.camel@bonedaddy.net>
Date:   Sat, 22 Feb 2020 22:17:14 +0800
From:   Paul Wise <pabs3@...edaddy.net>
To:     Matthew Ruffell <matthew.ruffell@...onical.com>,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jakub Wilk <jwilk@...lk.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] coredump: Fix null pointer dereference when
 kernel.core_pattern is "|"

On Thu, 2020-02-20 at 18:10 +1300, Matthew Ruffell wrote:

> A user was setting their kernel.core_pattern to "|" to disable coredumps

Hmm, that doesn't seem to be the right way to do that :)

> and encountered the following null pointer dereference

Thanks for forwarding that. I've bounced your mails to a few extra
folks, please include them in CC in future. Neil last touched the
coredump pipe stuff before me, Jakub reported the spaces in
core_pattern issue and Andrew merged my patch.

The patch seems like a reasonable approach but I don't have much
experience with Linux kernel internals.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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