[PATCH] i386 vDSO: use VM_ALWAYSDUMP
This patch fixes core dumps to include the vDSO vma, which is left out now.
It removes the special-case core writing macros, which were not doing the
right thing for the vDSO vma anyway. Instead, it uses VM_ALWAYSDUMP in the
vma; there is no need for the fixmap page to be installed. It handles the
CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO case by making elf_core_dump use the fake vma from
get_gate_vma after real vmas in the same way the /proc/PID/maps code does.
This changes core dumps so they no longer include the non-PT_LOAD phdrs from
the vDSO. I made the change to add them in the first place, but in turned out
that nothing ever wanted them there since the advent of NT_AUXV. It's cleaner
to leave them out, and just let the phdrs inside the vDSO image speak for
themselves.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c b/arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c
index 454d12d..5da7442 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c
@@ -79,11 +79,6 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO
__set_fixmap(FIX_VDSO, __pa(syscall_page), PAGE_READONLY);
printk("Compat vDSO mapped to %08lx.\n", __fix_to_virt(FIX_VDSO));
-#else
- /*
- * In the non-compat case the ELF coredumping code needs the fixmap:
- */
- __set_fixmap(FIX_VDSO, __pa(syscall_page), PAGE_KERNEL_RO);
#endif
if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SEP)) {
@@ -147,6 +142,13 @@
vma->vm_end = addr + PAGE_SIZE;
/* MAYWRITE to allow gdb to COW and set breakpoints */
vma->vm_flags = VM_READ|VM_EXEC|VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYEXEC|VM_MAYWRITE;
+ /*
+ * Make sure the vDSO gets into every core dump.
+ * Dumping its contents makes post-mortem fully interpretable later
+ * without matching up the same kernel and hardware config to see
+ * what PC values meant.
+ */
+ vma->vm_flags |= VM_ALWAYSDUMP;
vma->vm_flags |= mm->def_flags;
vma->vm_page_prot = protection_map[vma->vm_flags & 7];
vma->vm_ops = &syscall_vm_ops;