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| author | Christian Brauner <[email protected]> | 2025-08-21 11:50:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <[email protected]> | 2025-08-21 11:54:40 +0000 |
| commit | be1e0283021ec73c2eb92839db9a471a068709d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 51cf0d5982442bca24b95ed791cd1735345ef464 | |
| parent | fs: fix indentation style (diff) | |
| download | kernel-be1e0283021ec73c2eb92839db9a471a068709d9.tar.gz kernel-be1e0283021ec73c2eb92839db9a471a068709d9.zip | |
coredump: don't pointlessly check and spew warnings
When a write happens it doesn't make sense to check perform checks on
the input. Skip them.
Whether a fixes tag is licensed is a bit of a gray area here but I'll
add one for the socket validation part I added recently.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250821-moosbedeckt-denunziant-7908663f3563@brauner
Fixes: 16195d2c7dd2 ("coredump: validate socket name as it is written")
Reported-by: Brad Spengler <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/coredump.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/exec.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c index 5dce257c67fc..60bc9685e149 100644 --- a/fs/coredump.c +++ b/fs/coredump.c @@ -1466,11 +1466,15 @@ static int proc_dostring_coredump(const struct ctl_table *table, int write, ssize_t retval; char old_core_pattern[CORENAME_MAX_SIZE]; + if (write) + return proc_dostring(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); + retval = strscpy(old_core_pattern, core_pattern, CORENAME_MAX_SIZE); error = proc_dostring(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); if (error) return error; + if (!check_coredump_socket()) { strscpy(core_pattern, old_core_pattern, retval + 1); return -EINVAL; diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 2a1e5e4042a1..e861a4b7ffda 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -2048,7 +2048,7 @@ static int proc_dointvec_minmax_coredump(const struct ctl_table *table, int writ { int error = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); - if (!error) + if (!error && !write) validate_coredump_safety(); return error; } |