Don't dump task struct in a.out core-dumps

akiphie points out that a.out core-dumps have that odd task struct
dumping that was never used and was never really a good idea (it goes
back into the mists of history, probably the original core-dumping
code).  Just remove it.

Also do the access_ok() check on dump_write().  It probably doesn't
matter (since normal filesystems all seem to do it anyway), but he
points out that it's normally done by the VFS layer, so ...

[ I suspect that we should possibly do "vfs_write()" instead of
  calling ->write directly.  That also does the whole fsnotify and write
  statistics thing, which may or may not be a good idea. ]

And just to be anal, do this all for the x86-64 32-bit a.out emulation
code too, even though it's not enabled (and won't currently even
compile)

Reported-by: akiphie <akiphie@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c
index 0350311906ae..2d93bdbc9ac0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c
+++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 #include <asm/ia32.h>
 
 #undef WARN_OLD
-#undef CORE_DUMP /* probably broken */
+#undef CORE_DUMP /* definitely broken */
 
 static int load_aout_binary(struct linux_binprm *, struct pt_regs *regs);
 static int load_aout_library(struct file *);
@@ -131,21 +131,15 @@ static void set_brk(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
  * macros to write out all the necessary info.
  */
 
-static int dump_write(struct file *file, const void *addr, int nr)
-{
-        return file->f_op->write(file, addr, nr, &file->f_pos) == nr;
-}
+#include <linux/coredump.h>
 
 #define DUMP_WRITE(addr, nr)                         \
         if (!dump_write(file, (void *)(addr), (nr))) \
                 goto end_coredump;
 
-#define DUMP_SEEK(offset)                                               \
-        if (file->f_op->llseek) {                                       \
-                if (file->f_op->llseek(file, (offset), 0) != (offset))  \
-                        goto end_coredump;                              \
-        } else                                                          \
-                file->f_pos = (offset)
+#define DUMP_SEEK(offset)               \
+        if (!dump_seek(file, offset))   \
+                goto end_coredump;
 
 #define START_DATA()    (u.u_tsize << PAGE_SHIFT)
 #define START_STACK(u)  (u.start_stack)
@@ -217,12 +211,6 @@ static int aout_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs *regs, struct file *file,
                 dump_size = dump.u_ssize << PAGE_SHIFT;
                 DUMP_WRITE(dump_start, dump_size);
         }
-        /*
-         * Finally dump the task struct.  Not be used by gdb, but
-         * could be useful
-         */
-        set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
-        DUMP_WRITE(current, sizeof(*current));
 end_coredump:
         set_fs(fs);
         return has_dumped;