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, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_aout.c b/fs/binfmt_aout.c
index f96eff04e11a..a6395bdb26ae 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_aout.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_aout.c
@@ -134,10 +134,6 @@ static int aout_core_dump(struct coredump_params *cprm)
                 if (!dump_write(file, dump_start, dump_size))
                         goto end_coredump;
         }
-/* Finally dump the task struct.  Not be used by gdb, but could be useful */
-        set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
-        if (!dump_write(file, current, sizeof(*current)))
-                goto end_coredump;
 end_coredump:
         set_fs(fs);
         return has_dumped;