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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2016-12-14 15:04:14 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-12-14 16:04:07 -0800
commit760c6a9139c37e16502362b22656d0cc4e840e8f (patch)
treee85a71bc72e567ad7fb394cc1de0ed184d6deab7 /arch
parentc7be96af89d4b53211862d8599b2430e8900ed92 (diff)
coredump: clarify "unsafe core_pattern" warning
I was amused to find "unsafe core_pattern" warning having these lines in /etc/sysctl.conf: fs.suid_dumpable=2 kernel.core_pattern=/core/core-%e-%p-%E kernel.core_uses_pid=0 Turns out kernel is formally right. Default core_pattern is just "core", which doesn't qualify for secure path while setting suid.dumpable. Hint admins about solution, clarify sysctl names, delete unnecessary '\' characters (string literals are concatenated regardless) and reformat for easier grepping. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161029152124.GA1258@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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