If the core_pattern is set to "|" and any process segfaults then we get
a null pointer derefernce while trying to coredump. The call stack shows:
[ 108.212680] RIP: 0010:do_coredump+0x628/0x11c0
When the core_pattern has only "|" there is no use of trying the
coredump and we can check that while formating the corename and exit
with an error.
After this change I get:
[ 48.453756] format_corename failed
[ 48.453758] Aborting core
Fixes: 315c69261dd3 ("coredump: split pipe command whitespace before expanding template")
Reported-by: Matthew Ruffell <matthew.ruffell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Wise <pabs3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/coredump.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index f8296a82d01d..408418e6aa13 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ static int format_corename(struct core_name *cn, struct coredump_params *cprm,
return -ENOMEM;
(*argv)[(*argc)++] = 0;
++pat_ptr;
+ if (!(*pat_ptr))
+ return -ENOMEM;
}
/* Repeat as long as we have more pattern to process and more output
--
2.11.0
