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-rw-r--r--fs/exec.c15
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 5af8390e0fae..3684353ebd5f 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -2174,15 +2174,16 @@ void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
}
if (cprm.limit == 1) {
- /*
+ /* See umh_pipe_setup() which sets RLIMIT_CORE = 1.
+ *
* Normally core limits are irrelevant to pipes, since
* we're not writing to the file system, but we use
- * cprm.limit of 1 here as a speacial value. Any
- * non-1 limit gets set to RLIM_INFINITY below, but
- * a limit of 0 skips the dump. This is a consistent
- * way to catch recursive crashes. We can still crash
- * if the core_pattern binary sets RLIM_CORE = !1
- * but it runs as root, and can do lots of stupid things
+ * cprm.limit of 1 here as a speacial value, this is a
+ * consistent way to catch recursive crashes.
+ * We can still crash if the core_pattern binary sets
+ * RLIM_CORE = !1, but it runs as root, and can do
+ * lots of stupid things.
+ *
* Note that we use task_tgid_vnr here to grab the pid
* of the process group leader. That way we get the
* right pid if a thread in a multi-threaded