The patch titled coredump: make mm->core_state visible to ->core_dump() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is coredump-make-mm-core_state-visible-to-core_dump.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: coredump: make mm->core_state visible to ->core_dump() From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Move the "struct core_state core_state" from coredump_wait() to do_coredump(), this makes mm->core_state visible to binfmt->core_dump(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/exec.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/exec.c~coredump-make-mm-core_state-visible-to-core_dump fs/exec.c --- a/fs/exec.c~coredump-make-mm-core_state-visible-to-core_dump +++ a/fs/exec.c @@ -1595,17 +1595,16 @@ done: return nr; } -static int coredump_wait(int exit_code) +static int coredump_wait(int exit_code, struct core_state *core_state) { struct task_struct *tsk = current; struct mm_struct *mm = tsk->mm; - struct core_state core_state; struct completion *vfork_done; int core_waiters; init_completion(&mm->core_done); - init_completion(&core_state.startup); - core_waiters = zap_threads(tsk, mm, &core_state, exit_code); + init_completion(&core_state->startup); + core_waiters = zap_threads(tsk, mm, core_state, exit_code); up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); if (unlikely(core_waiters < 0)) @@ -1622,8 +1621,7 @@ static int coredump_wait(int exit_code) } if (core_waiters) - wait_for_completion(&core_state.startup); - mm->core_state = NULL; + wait_for_completion(&core_state->startup); fail: return core_waiters; } @@ -1679,6 +1677,7 @@ int get_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm) int do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs * regs) { + struct core_state core_state; char corename[CORENAME_MAX_SIZE + 1]; struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; struct linux_binfmt * binfmt; @@ -1717,7 +1716,7 @@ int do_coredump(long signr, int exit_cod current->fsuid = 0; /* Dump root private */ } - retval = coredump_wait(exit_code); + retval = coredump_wait(exit_code, &core_state); if (retval < 0) goto fail; @@ -1812,6 +1811,7 @@ fail_unlock: current->fsuid = fsuid; complete_all(&mm->core_done); + mm->core_state = NULL; fail: return retval; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch migrate_timers-add-comment-use-spinlock_irq.patch pm-introduce-new-interfaces-schedule_work_on-and-queue_work_on.patch pm-introduce-new-interfaces-schedule_work_on-and-queue_work_on-cleanup.patch posix-timers-timer_delete-remove-the-bogus-it_process-=-null-check.patch posix-timers-release_posix_timer-kill-the-bogus-put_task_struct-it_process.patch signals-collect_signal-remove-the-unneeded-sigismember-check.patch signals-collect_signal-simplify-the-still_pending-logic.patch signals-change-collect_signal-to-return-void.patch __exit_signal-dont-take-rcu-lock.patch signals-dequeue_signal-dont-check-signal_group_exit-when-setting-signal_stop_dequeued.patch signals-do_signal_stop-kill-the-signal_unkillable-check.patch coredump-zap_threads-comments-use-while_each_thread.patch signals-make-siginfo_t-si_utime-si_sstime-report-times-in-user_hz-not-hz.patch kernel-signalc-change-vars-pid-and-tgid-types-to-pid_t.patch include-asm-ptraceh-userspace-headers-cleanup.patch ptrace-give-more-respect-to-sigkill.patch ptrace-simplify-ptrace_stop-sigkill_pending-path.patch introduce-pf_kthread-flag.patch kill-pf_borrowed_mm-in-favour-of-pf_kthread.patch coredump-zap_threads-must-skip-kernel-threads.patch coredump-elf_core_dump-skip-kernel-threads.patch coredump-turn-mm-core_startup_done-into-the-pointer-to-struct-core_state.patch coredump-move-mm-core_waiters-into-struct-core_state.patch coredump-simplify-core_state-nr_threads-calculation.patch coredump-turn-core_state-nr_threads-into-atomic_t.patch coredump-make-mm-core_state-visible-to-core_dump.patch coredump-construct-the-list-of-coredumping-threads-at-startup-time.patch coredump-elf_core_dump-use-core_state-dumper-list.patch coredump-elf_fdpic_core_dump-use-core_state-dumper-list.patch coredump-kill-mm-core_done.patch workqueues-insert_work-use-list_head-instead-of-int-tail.patch workqueues-implement-flush_work.patch workqueues-schedule_on_each_cpu-use-flush_work.patch workqueues-make-get_online_cpus-useable-for-work-func.patch workqueues-make-get_online_cpus-useable-for-work-func-fix.patch s390-topology-dont-use-kthread-for-arch_reinit_sched_domains.patch workqueues-lockdep-annotations-for-flush_work.patch workqueues-queue_work-can-use-queue_work_on.patch workqueues-schedule_on_each_cpu-can-use-schedule_work_on.patch pidns-remove-now-unused-kill_proc-function.patch pidns-remove-now-unused-find_pid-function.patch pidns-remove-find_task_by_pid-unused-for-a-long-time.patch distinct-tgid-tid-i-o-statistics.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html