RE: [PATCH -mm v2] coredump: extend core dump note section tocontain file names of mapped files

[Jonathan M. Foote]

This change will be beneficial for automated vulnerability triage as well. It will allow tools (like http://www.cert.org/vuls/discovery/triage.html) to gather more information about where an application crashed and the addresses in the backtrace. This information can then be used to help determine the severity of the underlying bug.

Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Oleg Nesterov [mailto:oleg@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:37 AM
To: Denys Vlasenko
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Andrew Morton; Amerigo Wang; Jonathan M. Foote; Roland McGrath; Pedro Alves
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm v2] coredump: extend core dump note section to contain file names of mapped files

On 09/18, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>
> Changes since previous version: rediffed on top of NT_SIGINFO patches.

Assuming this is the only change:

Again, I can't judge whether we need this feature or not, although I tend to trust Denys who actually works with the user-space tools which play with coredumps.

But, from the correctness pov
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

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