From 3cb4a0bb1e773e3c41800b33a3f7dab32bd06c64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kawai, Hidehiro" <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:48:28 -0700
Subject: coredump masking: add an interface for core dump filter

This patch adds an interface to set/reset flags which determines each memory
segment should be dumped or not when a core file is generated.

/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter file is provided to access the flags.  You can
change the flag status for a particular process by writing to or reading from
the file.

The flag status is inherited to the child process when it is created.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 kernel/fork.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

(limited to 'kernel/fork.c')

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index ba39bdb2a7b8..469838998220 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -334,6 +334,8 @@ static struct mm_struct * mm_init(struct mm_struct * mm)
 	atomic_set(&mm->mm_count, 1);
 	init_rwsem(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mm->mmlist);
+	mm->flags = (current->mm) ? current->mm->flags
+				  : MMF_DUMP_FILTER_DEFAULT;
 	mm->core_waiters = 0;
 	mm->nr_ptes = 0;
 	set_mm_counter(mm, file_rss, 0);
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