From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> commit db973a7289dad24e6c017dcedc6aee886579dc3a upstream. If the core_pattern is set to "|" and any process segfaults then we get a null pointer derefernce while trying to coredump. The call stack shows: RIP: do_coredump+0x628/0x11c0 When the core_pattern has only "|" there is no use of trying the coredump and we can check that while formating the corename and exit with an error. After this change I get: format_corename failed Aborting core Fixes: 315c69261dd3 ("coredump: split pipe command whitespace before expanding template") Reported-by: Matthew Ruffell <matthew.ruffell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Wise <pabs3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416194612.21418-1-sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/coredump.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/fs/coredump.c +++ b/fs/coredump.c @@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ static int format_corename(struct core_n return -ENOMEM; (*argv)[(*argc)++] = 0; ++pat_ptr; + if (!(*pat_ptr)) + return -ENOMEM; } /* Repeat as long as we have more pattern to process and more output