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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-02-10 16:50:21 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-02-10 16:50:21 +0100
commit059adb5ac035fec290ca3a9f2dc08a19b20b4d67 (patch)
treede2291d03ba2397bb72b34c65a4fe3deec54da2f /NEWS
parent16a798deb3b560f8b27848fe292a76b362c0b581 (diff)
parenta7c723c0c00a1b8ee64fe360a5d3caf2c89cb25c (diff)
Merge pull request #2555 from poettering/coredump-fixes
Coredump fixes and more
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* /dev/disk/by-path/ symlink support has been (re-)added for virtio
devices.
+ * The coredump collection logic has been reworked: when a coredump is
+ collected it is now written to disk, compressed and processed
+ (including stacktrace extraction) from a new instantiated service
+ systemd-coredump@.service, instead of directly from the
+ /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern hook we provide. This is beneficial as
+ processing large coredumps can take up a substantial amount of
+ resources and time, and this previously happened entirely outside of
+ systemd's service supervision. With the new logic the core_pattern
+ hook only does minimal metadata collection before passing off control
+ to the new instantiated service, which is configured with a time
+ limit, a nice level and other settings to minimize negative impact on
+ the rest of the system. Also note that the new logic will honour the
+ RLIMIT_CORE setting of the crashed process, which now allows users
+ and processes to turn off coredumping for their processes by setting
+ this limit.
+
+ * The RLIMIT_CORE resource limit now defaults to "unlimited" for PID 1
+ and all forked processes by default. Previously, PID 1 would leave
+ the setting at "0" for all processes, as set by the kernel. Note that
+ the resource limit traditionally has no effect on the generated
+ coredumps on the system if the /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern hook
+ logic is used. Since the limit is now honoured (see above) its
+ default has been changed so that the coredumping logic is enabled by
+ default for all processes, while allowing specific opt-out.
+
+ * When the stacktrace is extracted from processes of system users, this
+ is now done as "systemd-coredump" user, in order to sandbox this
+ potentially security sensitive parsing operation. (Note that when
+ processing coredumps of normal users this is done under the user ID
+ of process that crashed, as before.) Packagers should take notice
+ that it is now necessary to create the "systemd-coredump" system user
+ and group at package installation time.
+
* The systemd-activate socket activation testing tool gained support
for SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets using the new --datagram
and --seqpacket switches. It also has been extended to support both