On Wed, 22 May 2019 18:16:14 +0200 Jan Luebbe <jlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Commit 0a1eb2d474ed ("fs/proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in > /proc/PID/stat") stopped reporting eip/esp and commit fd7d56270b52 > ("fs/proc: Report eip/esp in /prod/PID/stat for coredumping") > reintroduced the feature to fix a regression with userspace core dump > handlers (such as minicoredumper). > > Because PF_DUMPCORE is only set for the primary thread, this didn't fix > the original problem for secondary threads. This commit checks > mm->core_state instead, as already done for /proc/<pid>/status in > task_core_dumping(). As we have a mm_struct available here anyway, this > seems to be a clean solution. > Could we please have an explicit and complete description of the end-user visible effect of this change? It sounds like we should be backporting this into -stable but without the above info it's hard to determine this.