[PATCH v8 6/9] coredump: show supported coredump modes

Christian Brauner brauner at kernel.org
Fri May 16 11:25:33 UTC 2025


Allow userspace to discover what coredump modes are supported.

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>
---
 fs/coredump.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index 48064b1d6305..7b9a659683fc 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -1227,6 +1227,12 @@ static int proc_dostring_coredump(const struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 
 static const unsigned int core_file_note_size_min = CORE_FILE_NOTE_SIZE_DEFAULT;
 static const unsigned int core_file_note_size_max = CORE_FILE_NOTE_SIZE_MAX;
+static char core_modes[] = {
+	"file\npipe"
+#ifdef CONFIG_UNIX
+	"\nsocket"
+#endif
+};
 
 static const struct ctl_table coredump_sysctls[] = {
 	{
@@ -1270,6 +1276,13 @@ static const struct ctl_table coredump_sysctls[] = {
 		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
 		.extra2		= SYSCTL_ONE,
 	},
+	{
+		.procname	= "core_modes",
+		.data		= core_modes,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(core_modes) - 1,
+		.mode		= 0444,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dostring,
+	},
 };
 
 static int __init init_fs_coredump_sysctls(void)

-- 
2.47.2




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