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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2013-10-08 09:11:48 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2013-11-09 00:16:26 -0500
commit2507a4fbd48a96bc4236e584252635f8539079df (patch)
treed31719bcacb80dc5b3ccfa99c28e5a2c92602aa6 /fs/coredump.c
parent1ad67015e619ba4e0b15ed0482d464292fedf263 (diff)
downloadlinux-2507a4fbd48a96bc4236e584252635f8539079df.tar.gz
make dump_emit() use vfs_write() instead of banging at ->f_op->write directly
... and deal with short writes properly - the output might be to pipe, after
all; as it is, e.g. no-MMU case of elf_fdpic coredump can write a whole lot
more than a page worth of data at one call.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/coredump.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/coredump.c17
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index 319f973bab72..2472ed9e682c 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -696,13 +696,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_write);
 int dump_emit(struct coredump_params *cprm, const void *addr, int nr)
 {
 	struct file *file = cprm->file;
-	if (dump_interrupted() || !access_ok(VERIFY_READ, addr, nr))
-		return 0;
+	loff_t pos = file->f_pos;
+	ssize_t n;
 	if (cprm->written + nr > cprm->limit)
 		return 0;
-	if (file->f_op->write(file, addr, nr, &file->f_pos) != nr)
-		return 0;
-	cprm->written += nr;
+	while (nr) {
+		if (dump_interrupted())
+			return 0;
+		n = vfs_write(file, addr, nr, &pos);
+		if (n <= 0)
+			return 0;
+		file->f_pos = pos;
+		cprm->written += n;
+		nr -= n;
+	}
 	return 1;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_emit);