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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman2017-01-16 16:57:54 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman2017-01-16 16:57:54 +0100
commit11cca3d12f03c670a6dd14004d40580918898760 (patch)
tree495a745eaf5c44d08f8b1fb01b61733dc0e78c70 /fs/coredump.c
parentserial: 8250: Add new port type for TI DA8xx/66AK2x (diff)
parentLinux 4.10-rc4 (diff)
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Merge 4.10-rc4 into tty-next
We want the serial/tty fixes in here as well to build on top of. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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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);