Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix RLIMIT_CORE accounting for sparse dumps

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On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 02:39:23PM -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 01:31:08PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 09:57:22AM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 04:32:52PM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> > > > From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx>
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Someone here reported that they were getting truncated core dumps even
> > > > when RLIMIT_CORE was larger than the physical memory of the machine. It
> > > > looks some cleanup patches back in v3.13 [1] changed the behaviour of
> > > > the limit to also charge for sparse areas of a file.
> > > [snip]
> > > > 
> > > > Omar Sandoval (2):
> > > >   coredump: get rid of coredump_params->written
> > > >   coredump: only charge written data against RLIMIT_CORE
> > > > 
> > > >  arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/coredump.c | 5 +++--
> > > >  fs/binfmt_elf.c                              | 2 +-
> > > >  fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c                        | 2 +-
> > > >  fs/coredump.c                                | 7 ++-----
> > > >  4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > 2.7.1
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Ping, any change this can get in for -rc6?
> > 
> > Since this isn't a recent regression, I'd wait until the next merge
> > window instead of rc6.
> > 
> > -chris
> 
> Al, does this look okay for the merge window?
> 
> -- 
> Omar

Ping.

-- 
Omar
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