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authorXie Xiaobo <xiaobo.xie@nxp.com>2017-12-12 08:12:33 (GMT)
committerXie Xiaobo <xiaobo.xie@nxp.com>2017-12-12 08:12:33 (GMT)
commitc0246a9ec4d461ef4dd7647f94005380bb9e7f0b (patch)
tree7588601aa6ce98f5e9fd083a1b351d9023c0b295 /fs/coredump.c
parent50fd1a6d79d48a7c35890aecce5a5d6b872a461d (diff)
parent56f4a560c6d6318b5a8e18a1b3e44909a5158d1e (diff)
downloadlinux-c0246a9ec4d461ef4dd7647f94005380bb9e7f0b.tar.xz
Merge Linaro linux 4.9.62 into linux-4.9
Signed-off-by: Xiaobo Xie <xiaobo.xie@nxp.com>
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index eb9c92c..4407e27 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);