Re: [PATCH v3] Support madvise(MADV_DONTDUMP) when creating core dumps for qemu-user

2025-05-06 Thread Jon Wilson
Apologies. I'm just fighting git. Much more used to just using github.com and PRs, but I totally understand that different projects have their own preferences. Hopefully v4 looks a bit better? Is there anything else I need to do? What are the next steps? Just wait for it to be merged? Sorry, this

Re: [PATCH v3] Support madvise(MADV_DONTDUMP) when creating core dumps for qemu-user

2025-05-06 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 05:46:02PM +0100, WorksButNotTested wrote: > When running applications which make large (sparsely populated) address ranges > (e.g. when using address sanitizer with LibAFL) the inability to exclude these > regions from any core dump can result in very large files which fill

[PATCH v3] Support madvise(MADV_DONTDUMP) when creating core dumps for qemu-user

2025-05-06 Thread WorksButNotTested
When running applications which make large (sparsely populated) address ranges (e.g. when using address sanitizer with LibAFL) the inability to exclude these regions from any core dump can result in very large files which fill the disk. A coredump is obvously very useful for performing a post-morte