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authorSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2014-09-15 11:50:48 +0100
committerSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2014-09-15 11:50:48 +0100
commitae50d46ff26de73ec5f8390abcca879340cb0962 (patch)
tree3644d29665f3fadd0d686d08dbfa74eb9e95fa8a
parent467f7a6d426a37ddc0f9401f592facad3d003dfa (diff)
On Linux, call prctl to disable core dumps
Whenever I forget to turn off corekeeper, the regression tests take ages to record all test-segfault's crashes. Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83772 Reviewed-by: Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@collabora.co.uk>
-rw-r--r--configure.ac4
-rw-r--r--test/test-segfault.c18
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index b7b91bec..c41426f6 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -598,6 +598,10 @@ if test "x$ac_cv_header_syslog_h" = "xyes"; then
AC_CHECK_DECLS([LOG_PERROR], [], [], [[#include <syslog.h>]])
fi
+# For test-segfault.c
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE([sys/prctl.h])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE([prctl raise])
+
#### Check for broken poll; taken from Glib's configure
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for broken poll])
diff --git a/test/test-segfault.c b/test/test-segfault.c
index 329a21fd..c062ce1c 100644
--- a/test/test-segfault.c
+++ b/test/test-segfault.c
@@ -9,18 +9,34 @@
#include <sys/resource.h>
#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_PRCTL_H
+#include <sys/prctl.h>
+#endif
+
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
char *p;
#if HAVE_SETRLIMIT
+ /* No core dumps please, we know we crashed. */
struct rlimit r = { 0, };
getrlimit (RLIMIT_CORE, &r);
r.rlim_cur = 0;
setrlimit (RLIMIT_CORE, &r);
-
+#endif
+
+#if defined(HAVE_PRCTL) && defined(PR_SET_DUMPABLE)
+ /* Really, no core dumps please. On Linux, if core_pattern is
+ * set to a pipe (for abrt/apport/corekeeper/etc.), RLIMIT_CORE of 0
+ * is ignored (deliberately, so people can debug init(8) and other
+ * early stuff); but Linux has PR_SET_DUMPABLE, so we can avoid core
+ * dumps anyway. */
+ prctl (PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 0, 0, 0, 0);
+#endif
+
+#ifdef HAVE_RAISE
raise (SIGSEGV);
#endif
p = NULL;