On Wed, 29 May 2019 10:55:53 +0200 John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Allow reporting the eip/esp
> for all threads by checking for PF_EXITING as well. This is set for all
> the other threads when they are killed. coredump_wait() waits for all
> the tasks to become inactive before proceeding to invoke the core the
> core dumper.
>
> Reported-by: Jan Luebbe <jlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This is a rework of Jan's v1 patch that allows accessing eip/esp of all
> the threads without risk of the task still executing on a CPU.
Jan's patch ended up including
Fixes: fd7d56270b526ca3 ("fs/proc: Report eip/esp in /prod/PID/stat for coredumping")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Are these not appropriate here?
