For some time /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern has been able to set its output
destination as a pipe, allowing a user space helper to receive and
intellegently process a core.  This infrastructure however has some
shortcommings which can be enhanced.  Specifically:

1) The coredump code in the kernel should ignore RLIMIT_CORE limitation
   when core_pattern is a pipe, since file system resources are not being
   consumed in this case, unless the user application wishes to save the core,
   at which point the app is restricted by usual file system limits and
   restrictions.

2) The core_pattern code should be able to parse and pass options to the
   user space helper as an argv array.  The real core limit of the uid of the
   crashing proces should also be passable to the user space helper (since it
   is overridden to zero when called).

3) Some miscellaneous bugs need to be cleaned up (specifically the
   recognition of a recursive core dump, should the user mode helper itself
   crash.  Also, the core dump code in the kernel should not wait for the user
   mode helper to exit, since the same context is responsible for writing to
   the pipe, and a read of the pipe by the user mode helper will result in a
   deadlock.

This patch:

Remove the check of RLIMIT_CORE if core_pattern is a pipe.  In the event that
core_pattern is a pipe, the entire core will be fed to the user mode helper.
Signed-off-by: NNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
Cc: <wwoods@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Cc: Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
Cc: David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>

Add minimum support for the Blackfin relocations, since we don't have
enough space in each reloc.  The idea is to store a value with one
relocation so that subsequent ones can access it.

Actually, this patch is required for Blackfin.  Currently if BINFMT_FLAT is
enabled, git-tree kernel will fail to compile.
Signed-off-by: NBernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Report the correct errno for out of memory debug output in binfmt_flat.c
Signed-off-by: NPhilippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

remap() the region we get from mmap() to mark the fact that we are
using all of the available slack space. Any slack space is used
to form a simple brk region, and potentially more stack space than
requested at load time.

Any searches of the vma chain may well fail looking for
stack (and especially arg) addresses if the remaping is not done.
The simplest example is /proc/<pid>/cmdline, since the args
are pretty much always at the top of the data/bss/stack region.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch changes struct file to use struct path instead of having
independent pointers to struct dentry and struct vfsmount, and converts all
users of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} in fs/ to use f_path.{dentry,mnt}.

Additionally, it adds two #define's to make the transition easier for users of
the f_dentry and f_vfsmnt.
Signed-off-by: NJosef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NJörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

binfmt_flat.c calls set_personality with PER_LINUX as the personality.
On the arm architecture this results in the program running in 26bit
usermode.  PER_LINUX_32BIT should be used instead.  This doesn't affect
other architectures that use binfmt_flat.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Bernd Schmidt points out that binfmt_flat is now leaving the exec file open
while the application runs.  This offsets all the application's fd numbers.
We should have closed the file within exec(), not at exit()-time.

But there doesn't seem to be a lot of point in doing all this just to avoid
going over RLIMIT_NOFILE by one fd for a few microseconds.  So take the EMFILE
checking out again.  This will cause binfmt_flat to again fail LTP's
exec-should-return-EMFILE-when-fdtable-is-full test.  That test appears to be
wrong anyway - Open Group specs say nothing about exec() returning EMFILE.

Cc: Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

In binfmt_flat.c, the flat binary loader should check file descriptor table
and install the fd on the file.

Convert the function to single-exit and fix this bug.
Signed-off-by: N"Luke Yang" <luke.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Modify the initial trace output (which is based on flags in the binary
header) so that it is not done until after the magic number check.  This
may well not be a flat format binary, so the flags could be invalid.
(Prime example, running a script).

Changes prompted by patches from Stuart Hughs.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

- create one common dump_thread() prototype in kernel.h

- dump_thread() is only used in fs/binfmt_aout.c and can therefore be
  removed on all architectures where CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT is not
  available
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

How is anon_rss initialized?  In dup_mmap, and by mm_alloc's memset; but
that's not so good if an mm_counter_t is a special type.  And how is rss
initialized?  By set_mm_counter, all over the place.  Come on, we just need to
initialize them both at once by set_mm_counter in mm_init (which follows the
memcpy when forking).
Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Use MAP_PRIVATE when calling mmap to get memory for the code region.
The flat loader was using MAP_SHARED, but underlying changes to the
MMUless mmap means this is now wrong.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Make sure that binfmt_flat passes the correct flags into do_mmap().  nommu's
validate_mmap_request() will simple return -EINVAL if we try and pass it a
flags value of zero.
Signed-off-by: NYoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!