From: Christian Brauner Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 09:32:42 +0000 (+0200) Subject: coredump: fix core_pattern input validation X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a779e27f24aeb679969ddd1fdd7f636e22ddbc1e;p=users%2Fhch%2Fmisc.git coredump: fix core_pattern input validation In be1e0283021e ("coredump: don't pointlessly check and spew warnings") we tried to fix input validation so it only happens during a write to core_pattern. This would avoid needlessly logging a lot of warnings during a read operation. However the logic accidently got inverted in this commit. Fix it so the input validation only happens on write and is skipped on read. Fixes: be1e0283021e ("coredump: don't pointlessly check and spew warnings") Fixes: 16195d2c7dd2 ("coredump: validate socket name as it is written") Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reported-by: Yu Watanabe Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c index b5fc06a092a4..5c1c381ee380 100644 --- a/fs/coredump.c +++ b/fs/coredump.c @@ -1468,7 +1468,7 @@ static int proc_dostring_coredump(const struct ctl_table *table, int write, ssize_t retval; char old_core_pattern[CORENAME_MAX_SIZE]; - if (write) + if (!write) return proc_dostring(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); retval = strscpy(old_core_pattern, core_pattern, CORENAME_MAX_SIZE); diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 6b70c6726d31..4298e7e08d5d 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -2048,7 +2048,7 @@ static int proc_dointvec_minmax_coredump(const struct ctl_table *table, int writ { int error = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); - if (!error && !write) + if (!error && write) validate_coredump_safety(); return error; }