do_coredump() assumes that if format_corename() fails it should return
-ENOMEM. This is not true, for example cn_print_exe_file() can propagate
the error from d_path. Even if it was true, this is too fragile. Change
the code to check "ispipe < 0".
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
ispipe = format_corename(&cn, signr);
- if (ispipe == -ENOMEM) {
- printk(KERN_WARNING "format_corename failed\n");
- printk(KERN_WARNING "Aborting core\n");
- goto fail_corename;
- }
-
if (ispipe) {
int dump_count;
char **helper_argv;
+ if (ispipe < 0) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "format_corename failed\n");
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "Aborting core\n");
+ goto fail_corename;
+ }
+
if (cprm.limit == 1) {
/*
* Normally core limits are irrelevant to pipes, since