On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Alex Kelly <alex.page.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This prepares for making core dump functionality optional.
>
> The variable "suid_dumpable" and associated functions are left in fs/exec.c
> because they're used elsewhere, such as in ptrace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Kelly <alex.page.ke...@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org>
> ---
> v2: This patch set is a second revision that follows some suggestions from
> Ingo Molnar and Josh Triplett. Specifically, authorship of commits is
> revised for consistency, and an additional two patches cleaning up artifacts
> and making headers more sane are added.
>
> v3: This version fixes a few more authorship issues and some problems caused
> by a bad git send-email config. Sorry about the extra mails
>
> v4: This version fixes some ordering issues pointed out by Kees Cook and Josh
> Triplett, such that the order of the functions moved to fs/coredump.c is now
> consistent with their original order in fs/exec.c. v4 also drops some extra
> blank lines unintentionally introduced in fs/coredump.c, to avoid the need to
> clean them up later. That left the cleanup patch just reformatting a comment,
> so I dropped that patch. Some of the functions moved to coredump.c need a lot
> of cleaning up, but I'm not sure that those formatting changes should be
> folded into this patch series.

Thanks for the cleanups! This looks great now.

For all three patches:
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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