From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] coredump: Let dump_emit() bail out on short writes
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:40:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200818134027.GF29865@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200818061239.29091-3-jannh@google.com>
On 08/18, Jann Horn wrote:
>
> + if (dump_interrupted())
> + return 0;
> + n = __kernel_write(file, addr, nr, &pos);
> + if (n != nr)
> + return 0;
> + file->f_pos = pos;
Just curious, can't we simply do
__kernel_write(file, addr, nr, &file->f_pos);
and avoid "loff_t pos" ?
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-18 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-18 6:12 [PATCH v3 0/5] Fix ELF / FDPIC ELF core dumping, and use mmap_lock properly in there Jann Horn
2020-08-18 6:12 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] binfmt_elf_fdpic: Stop using dump_emit() on user pointers on !MMU Jann Horn
2020-08-18 6:12 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] coredump: Let dump_emit() bail out on short writes Jann Horn
2020-08-18 13:40 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2020-08-18 15:08 ` Jann Horn
2020-08-18 15:17 ` Al Viro
2020-08-18 6:12 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] coredump: Refactor page range dumping into common helper Jann Horn
2020-08-18 6:12 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] binfmt_elf, binfmt_elf_fdpic: Use a VMA list snapshot Jann Horn
2020-08-18 8:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-18 8:31 ` Jann Horn
2020-08-18 6:12 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] mm/gup: Take mmap_lock in get_dump_page() Jann Horn
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