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Re: [PATCH RESEND] coredump: Ensure proper size of sparse core files

From David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH RESEND] coredump: Ensure proper size of sparse core files
Date 2017-01-17 21:50 +0100
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 23:55:21 -0800

> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:42:43PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> The lseek() done by dump_skip() should extend the file properly.
> 
> lseek never extends a file.  It just moves the current file position.
> So if you do not have a write after the lseek it does nothing.

Ok, then the only other feedback I have is that we should probably
defer this truncate() call until the last possible dump write occurs
rather than right after the VMA loop.

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Re: [PATCH RESEND] coredump: Ensure proper size of sparse core  files David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-01-17 04:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH RESEND] coredump: Ensure proper size of sparse core files Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-01-17 09:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH RESEND] coredump: Ensure proper size of sparse core  files David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-01-17 21:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH RESEND] coredump: Ensure proper size of sparse core files Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com> - 2017-01-17 22:10 +0100

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