kernel.git/fs/coredump.c, branch linux-5.4.y

coredump: hand a pidfd to the usermode coredump helper

2025-06-04T12:32:36Z

commit b5325b2a270fcaf7b2a9a0f23d422ca8a5a8bdea upstream. Give userspace a way to instruct the kernel to install a pidfd into the usermode helper process. This makes coredump handling a lot more reliable for userspace. In parallel with this commit we already have systemd adding support for this in [1]. We create a pidfs file for the coredumping process when we process the corename pattern. When the usermode helper process is forked we then install the pidfs file as file descriptor three into the usermode helpers file descriptor table so it's available to the exec'd program. Since usermode helpers are either children of the system_unbound_wq workqueue or kthreadd we know that the file descriptor table is empty and can thus always use three as the file descriptor number. Note, that we'll install a pidfd for the thread-group leader even if a subthread is calling do_coredump(). We know that task linkage hasn't been removed due to delay_group_leader() and even if this @current isn't the actual thread-group leader we know that the thread-group leader cannot be reaped until @current has exited. [brauner: This is a backport for the v5.4 series. Upstream has significantly changed and backporting all that infra is a non-starter. So simply backport the pidfd_prepare() helper and waste the file descriptor we allocated. Then we minimally massage the umh coredump setup code.] Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/37125 [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250414-work-coredump-v2-3-685bf231f828@kernel.org Tested-by: Luca Boccassi Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

coredump: fix error handling for replace_fd()

2025-06-04T12:32:36Z

commit 95c5f43181fe9c1b5e5a4bd3281c857a5259991f upstream. The replace_fd() helper returns the file descriptor number on success and a negative error code on failure. The current error handling in umh_pipe_setup() only works because the file descriptor that is replaced is zero but that's pretty volatile. Explicitly check for a negative error code. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250414-work-coredump-v2-2-685bf231f828@kernel.org Tested-by: Luca Boccassi Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

coredump: fix core_pattern parse error

2020-12-11T12:23:30Z

commit 2bf509d96d84c3336d08375e8af34d1b85ee71c8 upstream. 'format_corename()' will splite 'core_pattern' on spaces when it is in pipe mode, and take helper_argv[0] as the path to usermode executable. It works fine in most cases. However, if there is a space between '|' and '/file/path', such as '| /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %P %u %g', then helper_argv[0] will be parsed as '', and users will get a 'Core dump to | disabled'. It is not friendly to users, as the pattern above was valid previously. Fix this by ignoring the spaces between '|' and '/file/path'. Fixes: 315c69261dd3 ("coredump: split pipe command whitespace before expanding template") Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Paul Wise Cc: Jakub Wilk [https://bugs.debian.org/924398] Cc: Neil Horman Cc: Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5fb62870.1c69fb81.8ef5d.af76@mx.google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

coredump: fix crash when umh is disabled

2020-05-14T05:58:27Z

commit 3740d93e37902b31159a82da2d5c8812ed825404 upstream. Commit 64e90a8acb859 ("Introduce STATIC_USERMODEHELPER to mediate call_usermodehelper()") added the optiont to disable all call_usermodehelper() calls by setting STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH to an empty string. When this is done, and crashdump is triggered, it will crash on null pointer dereference, since we make assumptions over what call_usermodehelper_exec() did. This has been reported by Sergey when one triggers a a coredump with the following configuration: ``` CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER=y CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH="" kernel.core_pattern = |/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %P %u %g %s %t %c %h %e ``` The way disabling the umh was designed was that call_usermodehelper_exec() would just return early, without an error. But coredump assumes certain variables are set up for us when this happens, and calls ile_start_write(cprm.file) with a NULL file. [ 2.819676] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020 [ 2.819859] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 2.820035] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 2.820188] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 2.820305] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI [ 2.820436] CPU: 2 PID: 89 Comm: a Not tainted 5.7.0-rc1+ #7 [ 2.820680] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20190711_202441-buildvm-armv7-10.arm.fedoraproject.org-2.fc31 04/01/2014 [ 2.821150] RIP: 0010:do_coredump+0xd80/0x1060 [ 2.821385] Code: e8 95 11 ed ff 48 c7 c6 cc a7 b4 81 48 8d bd 28 ff ff ff 89 c2 e8 70 f1 ff ff 41 89 c2 85 c0 0f 84 72 f7 ff ff e9 b4 fe ff ff <48> 8b 57 20 0f b7 02 66 25 00 f0 66 3d 00 8 0 0f 84 9c 01 00 00 44 [ 2.822014] RSP: 0000:ffffc9000029bcb8 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 2.822339] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88803f860000 RCX: 000000000000000a [ 2.822746] RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 0000000000000282 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 2.823141] RBP: ffffc9000029bde8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc9000029bc00 [ 2.823508] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff88803dec90be R12: ffffffff81c39da0 [ 2.823902] R13: ffff88803de84400 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 2.824285] FS: 00007fee08183540(0000) GS:ffff88803e480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 2.824767] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 2.825111] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 000000003f856005 CR4: 0000000000060ea0 [ 2.825479] Call Trace: [ 2.825790] get_signal+0x11e/0x720 [ 2.826087] do_signal+0x1d/0x670 [ 2.826361] ? force_sig_info_to_task+0xc1/0xf0 [ 2.826691] ? force_sig_fault+0x3c/0x40 [ 2.826996] ? do_trap+0xc9/0x100 [ 2.827179] exit_to_usermode_loop+0x49/0x90 [ 2.827359] prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x77/0xb0 [ 2.827559] ? invalid_op+0xa/0x30 [ 2.827747] ret_from_intr+0x20/0x20 [ 2.827921] RIP: 0033:0x55e2c76d2129 [ 2.828107] Code: 2d ff ff ff e8 68 ff ff ff 5d c6 05 18 2f 00 00 01 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 e9 7b ff ff ff 55 48 89 e5 <0f> 0b b8 00 00 00 00 5d c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 0 0 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 [ 2.828603] RSP: 002b:00007fffeba5e080 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 2.828801] RAX: 000055e2c76d2125 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fee0817c718 [ 2.829034] RDX: 00007fffeba5e188 RSI: 00007fffeba5e178 RDI: 0000000000000001 [ 2.829257] RBP: 00007fffeba5e080 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fee08193c00 [ 2.829482] R10: 0000000000000009 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000055e2c76d2040 [ 2.829727] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 2.829964] CR2: 0000000000000020 [ 2.830149] ---[ end trace ceed83d8c68a1bf1 ]--- ``` Cc: # v4.11+ Fixes: 64e90a8acb85 ("Introduce STATIC_USERMODEHELPER to mediate call_usermodehelper()") BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199795 Reported-by: Tony Vroon Reported-by: Sergey Kvachonok Tested-by: Sergei Trofimovich Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200416162859.26518-1-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

coredump: fix null pointer dereference on coredump

2020-04-29T14:33:14Z

commit db973a7289dad24e6c017dcedc6aee886579dc3a upstream. If the core_pattern is set to "|" and any process segfaults then we get a null pointer derefernce while trying to coredump. The call stack shows: RIP: do_coredump+0x628/0x11c0 When the core_pattern has only "|" there is no use of trying the coredump and we can check that while formating the corename and exit with an error. After this change I get: format_corename failed Aborting core Fixes: 315c69261dd3 ("coredump: split pipe command whitespace before expanding template") Reported-by: Matthew Ruffell Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Paul Wise Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Neil Horman Cc: Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416194612.21418-1-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

coredump: split pipe command whitespace before expanding template

2019-08-03T14:02:01Z

Save the offsets of the start of each argument to avoid having to update pointers to each argument after every corename krealloc and to avoid having to duplicate the memory for the dump command. Executable names containing spaces were previously being expanded from %e or %E and then split in the middle of the filename. This is incorrect behaviour since an argument list can represent arguments with spaces. The splitting could lead to extra arguments being passed to the core dump handler that it might have interpreted as options or ignored completely. Core dump handlers that are not aware of this Linux kernel issue will be using %e or %E without considering that it may be split and so they will be vulnerable to processes with spaces in their names breaking their argument list. If their internals are otherwise well written, such as if they are written in shell but quote arguments, they will work better after this change than before. If they are not well written, then there is a slight chance of breakage depending on the details of the code but they will already be fairly broken by the split filenames. Core dump handlers that are aware of this Linux kernel issue will be placing %e or %E as the last item in their core_pattern and then aggregating all of the remaining arguments into one, separated by spaces. Alternatively they will be obtaining the filename via other methods. Both of these will be compatible with the new arrangement. A side effect from this change is that unknown template types (for example %z) result in an empty argument to the dump handler instead of the argument being dropped. This is a desired change as: It is easier for dump handlers to process empty arguments than dropped ones, especially if they are written in shell or don't pass each template item with a preceding command-line option in order to differentiate between individual template types. Most core_patterns in the wild do not use options so they can confuse different template types (especially numeric ones) if an earlier one gets dropped in old kernels. If the kernel introduces a new template type and a core_pattern uses it, the core dump handler might not expect that the argument can be dropped in old kernels. For example, this can result in security issues when %d is dropped in old kernels. This happened with the corekeeper package in Debian and resulted in the interface between corekeeper and Linux having to be rewritten to use command-line options to differentiate between template types. The core_pattern for most core dump handlers is written by the handler author who would generally not insert unknown template types so this change should be compatible with all the core dump handlers that exist. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528051142.24939-1-pabs3@bonedaddy.net Fixes: 74aadce98605 ("core_pattern: allow passing of arguments to user mode helper when core_pattern is a pipe") Signed-off-by: Paul Wise Reported-by: Jakub Wilk [https://bugs.debian.org/924398] Reported-by: Paul Wise [https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/c8b7ecb8508895bf4adb62a748e2ea2c71854597.camel@bonedaddy.net/] Suggested-by: Jakub Wilk Acked-by: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo

2018-10-03T14:47:43Z

Linus recently observed that if we did not worry about the padding member in struct siginfo it is only about 48 bytes, and 48 bytes is much nicer than 128 bytes for allocating on the stack and copying around in the kernel. The obvious thing of only adding the padding when userspace is including siginfo.h won't work as there are sigframe definitions in the kernel that embed struct siginfo. So split siginfo in two; kernel_siginfo and siginfo. Keeping the traditional name for the userspace definition. While the version that is used internally to the kernel and ultimately will not be padded to 128 bytes is called kernel_siginfo. The definition of struct kernel_siginfo I have put in include/signal_types.h A set of buildtime checks has been added to verify the two structures have the same field offsets. To make it easy to verify the change kernel_siginfo retains the same size as siginfo. The reduction in size comes in a following change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

Merge branch 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2017-11-17T19:54:55Z

Pull compat and uaccess updates from Al Viro: - {get,put}_compat_sigset() series - assorted compat ioctl stuff - more set_fs() elimination - a few more timespec64 conversions - several removals of pointless access_ok() in places where it was followed only by non-__ variants of primitives * 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (24 commits) coredump: call do_unlinkat directly instead of sys_unlink fs: expose do_unlinkat for built-in callers ext4: take handling of EXT4_IOC_GROUP_ADD into a helper, get rid of set_fs() ipmi: get rid of pointless access_ok() pi433: sanitize ioctl cxlflash: get rid of pointless access_ok() mtdchar: get rid of pointless access_ok() r128: switch compat ioctls to drm_ioctl_kernel() selection: get rid of field-by-field copyin VT_RESIZEX: get rid of field-by-field copyin i2c compat ioctls: move to ->compat_ioctl() sched_rr_get_interval(): move compat to native, get rid of set_fs() mips: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset() sparc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset() s390: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset() ppc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset() parisc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset() get_compat_sigset() get rid of {get,put}_compat_itimerspec() io_getevents: Use timespec64 to represent timeouts ...

coredump: call do_unlinkat directly instead of sys_unlink

2017-11-10T13:48:49Z

And stop messing with the address limit. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman