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Disabling 'Report to Canonical: App crashes and errors' sets wrong core_pattern

Bug #1654479 reported by Daniel van Vugt
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apport (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Disabling 'Report to Canonical: App crashes and errors' sets wrong core_pattern.

On a fresh boot with error reporting disabled by default:
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
/bad_core_pattern

Enable 'Report to Canonical: App crashes and errors':
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
|/usr/share/apport/apport %p %s %c %P

Disable 'Report to Canonical: App crashes and errors':
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
core

I think it should be reverting to "/bad_core_pattern" instead of "core". Because "core" could fill the filesystem with core files (if ulimit allows it).

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
affects: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu) → apport (Ubuntu)
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

There's noting in apport that writes "bad_core_pattern". I also looked in ubuntu-system-settings and didn't find anything there either.

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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

This is set per the fix for lp:1505302 but that also sets suid_dumpable to 0. The core pattern seems moot in that case?

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Indeed, it sounds like that would make this moot. So it's an invisible issue, but still worth fixing. We still don't want core files unexpectedly appearing if the other factors happen to go away in future.

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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