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:o...@redhat.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:37 AM To: Denys Vlasenko Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; 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 <o...@redhat.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
