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coredump: suppress uid comparison test if core output files are pipes
authorNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Fri, 5 Mar 2010 21:44:16 +0000 (13:44 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 23:01:18 +0000 (16:01 -0700)
commit6afa5c708e7f6acf6fe5e47262a6e2c95d2deaa3
treecd74af2c5106b94b3f690328582de5c6d52e2c19
parenta94b3267924327acf606ba22f4a5fb480e354da6
coredump: suppress uid comparison test if core output files are pipes

commit 76595f79d76fbe6267a51b3a866a028d150f06d4 upstream.

Modify uid check in do_coredump so as to not apply it in the case of
pipes.

This just got noticed in testing.  The end of do_coredump validates the
uid of the inode for the created file against the uid of the crashing
process to ensure that no one can pre-create a core file with different
ownership and grab the information contained in the core when they
shouldn' tbe able to.  This causes failures when using pipes for a core
dumps if the crashing process is not root, which is the uid of the pipe
when it is created.

The fix is simple.  Since the check for matching uid's isn't relevant for
pipes (a process can't create a pipe that the uermodehelper code will open
anyway), we can just just skip it in the event ispipe is non-zero

Reverts a pipe-affecting change which was accidentally made in

: commit c46f739dd39db3b07ab5deb4e3ec81e1c04a91af
: Author:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
: AuthorDate: Wed Nov 28 13:59:18 2007 +0100
: Commit:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
: CommitDate: Wed Nov 28 10:58:01 2007 -0800
:
:     vfs: coredumping fix

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/exec.c