dump_emit() has a retry loop, but there seems to be no way for that retry logic to actually be used; and it was also buggy, writing the same data repeatedly after a short write. Let's just bail out on a short write. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/coredump.c | 22 +++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c index 76e7c10edfc0..5e24c06092c9 100644 --- a/fs/coredump.c +++ b/fs/coredump.c @@ -840,17 +840,17 @@ int dump_emit(struct coredump_params *cprm, const void *addr, int nr) ssize_t n; if (cprm->written + nr > cprm->limit) return 0; - while (nr) { - if (dump_interrupted()) - return 0; - n = __kernel_write(file, addr, nr, &pos); - if (n <= 0) - return 0; - file->f_pos = pos; - cprm->written += n; - cprm->pos += n; - nr -= n; - } + + + if (dump_interrupted()) + return 0; + n = __kernel_write(file, addr, nr, &pos); + if (n != nr) + return 0; + file->f_pos = pos; + cprm->written += n; + cprm->pos += n; + return 1; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_emit); -- 2.28.0.220.ged08abb693-goog