Currently only stdin is available in the coredump helper process. If the process opens a file and then issues a printf(), printf() will write to that opened file instead to a console. Therefore open /dev/console and create fd 1 and 0 as init/main.c does. sys_close(0) is only needed if sys_open() succeeds. Before this patch it was in vain and returned always -EBADF because nobody opened fd 0. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> --- fs/exec.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 574cf4d..2912fec 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -2079,7 +2079,13 @@ static int umh_pipe_setup(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new) cp->file = files[1]; - sys_close(0); + /* Ensure that the process has stdout and stderr */ + if (sys_open((const char __user *) "/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0) == 0) { + sys_dup(0); + sys_dup(0); + sys_close(0); + } + fd_install(0, files[0]); spin_lock(&cf->file_lock); fdt = files_fdtable(cf); -- 1.7.11.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html