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-rw-r--r--fs/binfmt_elf.c1
-rw-r--r--fs/coredump.c18
-rw-r--r--include/linux/coredump.h1
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 29a02daf08a9..422370293cfd 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -2298,6 +2298,7 @@ static int elf_core_dump(struct coredump_params *cprm)
goto end_coredump;
}
}
+ dump_truncate(cprm);
if (!elf_core_write_extra_data(cprm))
goto end_coredump;
diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index e525b6017cdf..ae6b05629ca1 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -833,3 +833,21 @@ int dump_align(struct coredump_params *cprm, int align)
return mod ? dump_skip(cprm, align - mod) : 1;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_align);
+
+/*
+ * Ensures that file size is big enough to contain the current file
+ * postion. This prevents gdb from complaining about a truncated file
+ * if the last "write" to the file was dump_skip.
+ */
+void dump_truncate(struct coredump_params *cprm)
+{
+ struct file *file = cprm->file;
+ loff_t offset;
+
+ if (file->f_op->llseek && file->f_op->llseek != no_llseek) {
+ offset = file->f_op->llseek(file, 0, SEEK_CUR);
+ if (i_size_read(file->f_mapping->host) < offset)
+ do_truncate(file->f_path.dentry, offset, 0, file);
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_truncate);
diff --git a/include/linux/coredump.h b/include/linux/coredump.h
index d016a121a8c4..28ffa94aed6b 100644
--- a/include/linux/coredump.h
+++ b/include/linux/coredump.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ struct coredump_params;
extern int dump_skip(struct coredump_params *cprm, size_t nr);
extern int dump_emit(struct coredump_params *cprm, const void *addr, int nr);
extern int dump_align(struct coredump_params *cprm, int align);
+extern void dump_truncate(struct coredump_params *cprm);
#ifdef CONFIG_COREDUMP
extern void do_coredump(const siginfo_t *siginfo);
#else