On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 07:28:44AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Brian Mak <makb@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Large cores may be truncated in some scenarios, such as with daemons > > with stop timeouts that are not large enough or lack of disk space. This > > impacts debuggability with large core dumps since critical information > > necessary to form a usable backtrace, such as stacks and shared library > > information, are omitted. > > > > We attempted to figure out which VMAs are needed to create a useful > > backtrace, and it turned out to be a non-trivial problem. Instead, we > > try simply sorting the VMAs by size, which has the intended effect. > > > > By sorting VMAs by dump size and dumping in that order, we have a > > simple, yet effective heuristic. > > To make finding the history easier I would include: > v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CB8195AE-518D-44C9-9841-B2694A5C4002@xxxxxxxxxxx > v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/C21B229F-D1E6-4E44-B506-A5ED4019A9DE@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > As Kees has already picked this up this is quite possibly silly. > But *shrug* that was when I was out. I've updated the trailers. Thanks for the review! -Kees -- Kees Cook