Re: [PATCH] coredump: Also dump first pages of non-executable ELF libraries

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On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 4:19 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > When I rewrote the VMA dumping logic for coredumps, I changed it to
> > recognize ELF library mappings based on the file being executable instead
> > of the mapping having an ELF header. But turns out, distros ship many ELF
> > libraries as non-executable, so the heuristic goes wrong...
> >
> > Restore the old behavior where FILTER(ELF_HEADERS) dumps the first page of
> > any offset-0 readable mapping that starts with the ELF magic.
> >
> > This fix is technically layer-breaking a bit, because it checks for
> > something ELF-specific in fs/coredump.c; but since we probably want to
> > share this between standard ELF and FDPIC ELF anyway, I guess it's fine?
> > And this also keeps the change small for backporting.
>
> In light of the conflict with my other changes, and in light of the pain
> of calling get_user.
>
> Is there any reason why the doesn't unconditionally dump all headers?
> Something like the diff below?
>
> I looked in the history and the code was filtering for ELF headers
> there already.  I am just thinking this feels like a good idea
> regardless of the file format to help verify the file on-disk
> is the file we think was mapped.

Yeah, I guess that's reasonable. The main difference will probably be
that the starting pages of some font files, locale files and python
libraries will also be logged.



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