The patch titled
kcore: fix /proc/kcore's stat.st_size
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
kcore-fix-proc-kcores-statst_size.patch
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Subject: kcore: fix /proc/kcore's stat.st_size
From: Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
In 9063c61fd5cbd ("x86, 64-bit: Clean up user address masking") Linus
fixed the wrong size of /proc/kcore problem.
But its size still looks insane, since it never equals the size of
physical memory.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tao Ma <tao.ma@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/kcore.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/proc/kcore.c~kcore-fix-proc-kcores-statst_size fs/proc/kcore.c
--- a/fs/proc/kcore.c~kcore-fix-proc-kcores-statst_size
+++ a/fs/proc/kcore.c
@@ -405,9 +405,6 @@ read_kcore(struct file *file, char __use
static int __init proc_kcore_init(void)
{
proc_root_kcore = proc_create("kcore", S_IRUSR, NULL, &proc_kcore_operations);
- if (proc_root_kcore)
- proc_root_kcore->size =
- (size_t)high_memory - PAGE_OFFSET + PAGE_SIZE;
return 0;
}
module_init(proc_kcore_init);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
elf-fix-multithreaded-program-core-dumping-on-arm.patch
kcore-fix-proc-kcores-statst_size.patch
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