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coredump: add a new elf note with siginfo of the signal
authorDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:22:15 +0000 (10:22 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 5 Oct 2012 04:01:39 +0000 (14:01 +1000)
commit60bfe4f1d9bf1a6423a514ef5dd0d4fd53e8b1f6
treef522c0c9824dc1383567ce489e30ec44182b7719
parent7aade3ebbf8b6f336d2a22151b425f89a6a4ae17
coredump: add a new elf note with siginfo of the signal

Existing PRSTATUS note contains only si_signo, si_code, si_errno fields
from the siginfo of the signal which caused core to be dumped.

There are tools which try to analyze crashes for possible security
implications, and they want to use, among other data, si_addr field from
the SIGSEGV.

This patch adds a new elf note, NT_SIGINFO, which contains the complete
siginfo_t of the signal which killed the process.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: "Jonathan M. Foote" <jmfoote@cert.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/binfmt_elf.c
fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c
include/linux/elf.h