coredump: refactor page range dumping into common helper

Both fs/binfmt_elf.c and fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c need to dump ranges of
pages into the coredump file.  Extract that logic into a common helper.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Author: thejh

fs/binfmt_elf.c

@@ -2444,26 +2444,8 @@ static int elf_core_dump(struct coredump_params *cprm)
 
 	for (i = 0, vma = first_vma(current, gate_vma); vma != NULL;
 			vma = next_vma(vma, gate_vma)) {
-		unsigned long addr;
-		unsigned long end;
-
-		end = vma->vm_start + vma_filesz[i++];
-
-		for (addr = vma->vm_start; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
-			struct page *page;
-			int stop;
-
-			page = get_dump_page(addr);
-			if (page) {
-				void *kaddr = kmap(page);
-				stop = !dump_emit(cprm, kaddr, PAGE_SIZE);
-				kunmap(page);
-				put_page(page);
-			} else
-				stop = !dump_skip(cprm, PAGE_SIZE);
-			if (stop)
-				goto end_coredump;
-		}
+		if (!dump_user_range(cprm, vma->vm_start, vma_filesz[i++]))
+			goto end_coredump;
 	}
 	dump_truncate(cprm);
 

fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c

@@ -1534,21 +1534,9 @@ static bool elf_fdpic_dump_segments(struct coredump_params *cprm)
 		if (!maydump(vma, cprm->mm_flags))
 			continue;
 
-		for (addr = vma->vm_start; addr < vma->vm_end;
-							addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
-			bool res;
-			struct page *page = get_dump_page(addr);
-			if (page) {
-				void *kaddr = kmap(page);
-				res = dump_emit(cprm, kaddr, PAGE_SIZE);
-				kunmap(page);
-				put_page(page);
-			} else {
-				res = dump_skip(cprm, PAGE_SIZE);
-			}
-			if (!res)
-				return false;
-		}
+		if (!dump_user_range(cprm, vma->vm_start,
+				     vma->vma_end - vma->vm_start))
+			return false;
 	}
 	return true;
 }

fs/coredump.c

@@ -876,6 +876,40 @@ int dump_skip(struct coredump_params *cprm, size_t nr)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_skip);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ELF_CORE
+int dump_user_range(struct coredump_params *cprm, unsigned long start,
+		    unsigned long len)
+{
+	unsigned long addr;
+
+	for (addr = start; addr < start + len; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
+		struct page *page;
+		int stop;
+
+		/*
+		 * To avoid having to allocate page tables for virtual address
+		 * ranges that have never been used yet, and also to make it
+		 * easy to generate sparse core files, use a helper that returns
+		 * NULL when encountering an empty page table entry that would
+		 * otherwise have been filled with the zero page.
+		 */
+		page = get_dump_page(addr);
+		if (page) {
+			void *kaddr = kmap(page);
+
+			stop = !dump_emit(cprm, kaddr, PAGE_SIZE);
+			kunmap(page);
+			put_page(page);
+		} else {
+			stop = !dump_skip(cprm, PAGE_SIZE);
+		}
+		if (stop)
+			return 0;
+	}
+	return 1;
+}
+#endif
+
 int dump_align(struct coredump_params *cprm, int align)
 {
 	unsigned mod = cprm->pos & (align - 1);

include/linux/coredump.h

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ extern int dump_skip(struct coredump_params *cprm, size_t nr);
 extern int dump_emit(struct coredump_params *cprm, const void *addr, int nr);
 extern int dump_align(struct coredump_params *cprm, int align);
 extern void dump_truncate(struct coredump_params *cprm);
+int dump_user_range(struct coredump_params *cprm, unsigned long start,
+		    unsigned long len);
 #ifdef CONFIG_COREDUMP
 extern void do_coredump(const kernel_siginfo_t *siginfo);
 #else