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    Merge branch 'per_signal_struct_coredumps-for-v5.16' of... · a602285a
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Merge branch 'per_signal_struct_coredumps-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
    
    Pull per signal_struct coredumps from Eric Biederman:
     "Current coredumps are mixed up with the exit code, the signal handling
      code, and the ptrace code making coredumps much more complicated than
      necessary and difficult to follow.
    
      This series of changes starts with ptrace_stop and cleans it up,
      making it easier to follow what is happening in ptrace_stop. Then
      cleans up the exec interactions with coredumps. Then cleans up the
      coredump interactions with exit. Finally the coredump interactions
      with the signal handling code is cleaned up.
    
      The first and last changes are bug fixes for minor bugs.
    
      I believe the fact that vfork followed by execve can kill the process
      the called vfork if exec fails is sufficient justification to change
      the userspace visible behavior.
    
      In previous discussions some of these changes were organized
      differently and individually appeared to make the code base worse. As
      currently written I believe they all stand on their own as cleanups
      and bug fixes.
    
      Which means that even if the worst should happen and the last change
      needs to be reverted for some unimaginable reason, the code base will
      still be improved.
    
      If the worst does not happen there are a more cleanups that can be
      made. Signals that generate coredumps can easily become eligible for
      short circuit delivery in complete_signal. The entire rendezvous for
      generating a coredump can move into get_signal. The function
      force_sig_info_to_task be written in a way that does not modify the
      signal handling state of the target task (because coredumps are
      eligible for short circuit delivery). Many of these future cleanups
      can be done another way but nothing so cleanly as if coredumps become
      per signal_struct"
    
    * 'per_signal_struct_coredumps-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
      coredump: Limit coredumps to a single thread group
      coredump:  Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core
      exit: Factor coredump_exit_mm out of exit_mm
      exec: Check for a pending fatal signal instead of core_state
      ptrace: Remove the unnecessary arguments from arch_ptrace_stop
      signal: Remove the bogus sigkill_pending in ptrace_stop
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