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commit df8411da087dc05481926f4c4a82deabc5bc3859
Author: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Mar 31 19:32:34 2015 -0400

    Implement support for checking /proc/PID/coredump_filter
    
    This patch, as the subject says, extends GDB so that it is able to use
    the contents of the file /proc/PID/coredump_filter when generating a
    corefile.  This file contains a bit mask that is a representation of
    the different types of memory mappings in the Linux kernel; the user
    can choose to dump or not dump a certain type of memory mapping by
    enabling/disabling the respective bit in the bit mask.  Currently,
    here is what is supported:
    
      bit 0  Dump anonymous private mappings.
      bit 1  Dump anonymous shared mappings.
      bit 2  Dump file-backed private mappings.
      bit 3  Dump file-backed shared mappings.
      bit 4 (since Linux 2.6.24)
             Dump ELF headers.
      bit 5 (since Linux 2.6.28)
             Dump private huge pages.
      bit 6 (since Linux 2.6.28)
             Dump shared huge pages.
    
    (This table has been taken from core(5), but you can also read about it
    on Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt inside the Linux kernel source
    tree).
    
    The default value for this file, used by the Linux kernel, is 0x33,
    which means that bits 0, 1, 4 and 5 are enabled.  This is also the
    default for GDB implemented in this patch, FWIW.
    
    Well, reading the file is obviously trivial.  The hard part, mind you,
    is how to determine the types of the memory mappings.  For that, I
    extended the code of gdb/linux-tdep.c:linux_find_memory_regions_full and
    made it rely *much more* on the information gathered from
    /proc/<PID>/smaps.  This file contains a "verbose dump" of the
    inferior's memory mappings, and we were not using as much information as
    we could from it.  If you want to read more about this file, take a look
    at the proc(5) manpage (I will also write a blog post soon about
    everything I had to learn to get this patch done, and when I it is ready
    I will post it here).
    
    With Oleg Nesterov's help, we could improve the current algorithm for
    determining whether a memory mapping is anonymous/file-backed,
    private/shared.  GDB now also respects the MADV_DONTDUMP flag and does
    not dump the memory mapping marked as so, and will always dump
    "[vsyscall]" or "[vdso]" mappings (just like the Linux kernel).
    
    In a nutshell, what the new code is doing is:
    
    - If the mapping is associated to a file whose name ends with
      " (deleted)", or if the file is "/dev/zero", or if it is "/SYSV%08x"
      (shared memory), or if there is no file associated with it, or if
      the AnonHugePages: or the Anonymous: fields in the /proc/PID/smaps
      have contents, then GDB considers this mapping to be anonymous.
      There is a special case in this, though: if the memory mapping is a
      file-backed one, but *also* contains "Anonymous:" or
      "AnonHugePages:" pages, then GDB considers this mapping to be *both*
      anonymous and file-backed, just like the Linux kernel does.  What
      that means is simple: this mapping will be dumped if the user
      requested anonymous mappings *or* if the user requested file-backed
      mappings to be present in the corefile.
    
      It is worth mentioning that, from all those checks described above,
      the most fragile is the one to see if the file name ends with
      " (deleted)".  This does not necessarily mean that the mapping is
      anonymous, because the deleted file associated with the mapping may
      have been a hard link to another file, for example.  The Linux
      kernel checks to see if "i_nlink == 0", but GDB cannot easily do
      this check (as it has been discussed, GDB would need to run as root,
      and would need to check the contents of the /proc/PID/map_files/
      directory in order to determine whether the deleted was a hardlink
      or not).  Therefore, we made a compromise here, and we assume that
      if the file name ends with " (deleted)", then the mapping is indeed
      anonymous.  FWIW, this is something the Linux kernel could do
      better: expose this information in a more direct way.
    
    - If we see the flag "sh" in the VmFlags: field (in /proc/PID/smaps),
      then certainly the memory mapping is shared (VM_SHARED).  If we have
      access to the VmFlags, and we don't see the "sh" there, then
      certainly the mapping is private.  However, older Linux kernels (see
      the code for more details) do not have the VmFlags field; in that
      case, we use another heuristic: if we see 'p' in the permission
      flags, then we assume that the mapping is private, even though the
      presence of the 's' flag there would mean VM_MAYSHARE, which means
      the mapping could still be private.  This should work OK enough,
      however.
    
    Finally, it is worth mentioning that I added a new command, 'set
    use-coredump-filter on/off'.  When it is 'on', it will read the
    coredump_filter' file (if it exists) and use its value; otherwise, it
    will use the default value mentioned above (0x33) to decide which memory
    mappings to dump.
    
    gdb/ChangeLog:
    2015-03-31  Sergio Durigan Junior  <sergiodj@redhat.com>
    	    Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
    	    Oleg Nesterov  <oleg@redhat.com>
    
    	PR corefiles/16092
    	* linux-tdep.c: Include 'gdbcmd.h' and 'gdb_regex.h'.
    	New enum identifying the various options of the coredump_filter
    	file.
    	(struct smaps_vmflags): New struct.
    	(use_coredump_filter): New variable.
    	(decode_vmflags): New function.
    	(mapping_is_anonymous_p): Likewise.
    	(dump_mapping_p): Likewise.
    	(linux_find_memory_regions_full): New variables
    	'coredumpfilter_name', 'coredumpfilterdata', 'pid', 'filterflags'.
    	Removed variable 'modified'.  Read /proc/<PID>/smaps file; improve
    	parsing of its information.  Implement memory mapping filtering
    	based on its contents.
    	(show_use_coredump_filter): New function.
    	(_initialize_linux_tdep): New command 'set use-coredump-filter'.
    	* NEWS: Mention the possibility of using the
    	'/proc/PID/coredump_filter' file when generating a corefile.
    	Mention new command 'set use-coredump-filter'.
    
    gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
    2015-03-31  Sergio Durigan Junior  <sergiodj@redhat.com>
    
    	PR corefiles/16092
    	* gdb.texinfo (gcore): Mention new command 'set
    	use-coredump-filter'.
    	(set use-coredump-filter): Document new command.
    
    gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
    2015-03-31  Sergio Durigan Junior  <sergiodj@redhat.com>
    
    	PR corefiles/16092
    	* gdb.base/coredump-filter.c: New file.
    	* gdb.base/coredump-filter.exp: Likewise.

### a/gdb/ChangeLog
### b/gdb/ChangeLog
## -1,4 +1,28 @@
 2015-03-31  Sergio Durigan Junior  <sergiodj@redhat.com>
+	    Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
+	    Oleg Nesterov  <oleg@redhat.com>
+
+	PR corefiles/16092
+	* linux-tdep.c: Include 'gdbcmd.h' and 'gdb_regex.h'.
+	New enum identifying the various options of the coredump_filter
+	file.
+	(struct smaps_vmflags): New struct.
+	(use_coredump_filter): New variable.
+	(decode_vmflags): New function.
+	(mapping_is_anonymous_p): Likewise.
+	(dump_mapping_p): Likewise.
+	(linux_find_memory_regions_full): New variables
+	'coredumpfilter_name', 'coredumpfilterdata', 'pid', 'filterflags'.
+	Removed variable 'modified'.  Read /proc/<PID>/smaps file; improve
+	parsing of its information.  Implement memory mapping filtering
+	based on its contents.
+	(show_use_coredump_filter): New function.
+	(_initialize_linux_tdep): New command 'set use-coredump-filter'.
+	* NEWS: Mention the possibility of using the
+	'/proc/PID/coredump_filter' file when generating a corefile.
+	Mention new command 'set use-coredump-filter'.
+
+2015-03-31  Sergio Durigan Junior  <sergiodj@redhat.com>
 
 	* solib-svr4.c (solib_svr4_r_ldsomap): Catch possible exception by
 	read_memory_unsigned_integer.
Index: gdb-7.6.1/gdb/NEWS
===================================================================
--- gdb-7.6.1.orig/gdb/NEWS	2015-11-27 22:31:13.965841796 +0100
+++ gdb-7.6.1/gdb/NEWS	2015-11-27 22:31:13.994841957 +0100
@@ -18,6 +18,14 @@
   the program interruption transaction diagnostic block (TDB) is now
   represented as a number of additional "registers" in GDB.
 
+* GDB now honors the content of the file /proc/PID/coredump_filter
+  (PID is the process ID) on GNU/Linux systems.  This file can be used
+  to specify the types of memory mappings that will be included in a
+  corefile.  For more information, please refer to the manual page of
+  "core(5)".  GDB also has a new command: "set use-coredump-filter
+  on|off".  It allows to set whether GDB will read the content of the
+  /proc/PID/coredump_filter file when generating a corefile.
+
 * New remote packets
 
 qXfer:libraries-svr4:read's annex
Index: gdb-7.6.1/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
===================================================================
--- gdb-7.6.1.orig/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo	2015-11-27 22:31:13.811840941 +0100
+++ gdb-7.6.1/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo	2015-11-27 22:31:14.001841996 +0100
@@ -10315,6 +10315,39 @@
 
 Note that this command is implemented only for some systems (as of
 this writing, @sc{gnu}/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and S390).
+
+On @sc{gnu}/Linux, this command can take into account the value of the
+file @file{/proc/@var{pid}/coredump_filter} when generating the core
+dump (@pxref{set use-coredump-filter}).
+
+@kindex set use-coredump-filter
+@anchor{set use-coredump-filter}
+@item set use-coredump-filter on
+@itemx set use-coredump-filter off
+Enable or disable the use of the file
+@file{/proc/@var{pid}/coredump_filter} when generating core dump
+files.  This file is used by the Linux kernel to decide what types of
+memory mappings will be dumped or ignored when generating a core dump
+file.  @var{pid} is the process ID of a currently running process.
+
+To make use of this feature, you have to write in the
+@file{/proc/@var{pid}/coredump_filter} file a value, in hexadecimal,
+which is a bit mask representing the memory mapping types.  If a bit
+is set in the bit mask, then the memory mappings of the corresponding
+types will be dumped; otherwise, they will be ignored.  This
+configuration is inherited by child processes.  For more information
+about the bits that can be set in the
+@file{/proc/@var{pid}/coredump_filter} file, please refer to the
+manpage of @code{core(5)}.
+
+By default, this option is @code{on}.  If this option is turned
+@code{off}, @value{GDBN} does not read the @file{coredump_filter} file
+and instead uses the same default value as the Linux kernel in order
+to decide which pages will be dumped in the core dump file.  This
+value is currently @code{0x33}, which means that bits @code{0}
+(anonymous private mappings), @code{1} (anonymous shared mappings),
+@code{4} (ELF headers) and @code{5} (private huge pages) are active.
+This will cause these memory mappings to be dumped automatically.
 @end table
 
 @node Character Sets
Index: gdb-7.6.1/gdb/linux-tdep.c
===================================================================
--- gdb-7.6.1.orig/gdb/linux-tdep.c	2013-04-05 21:17:27.000000000 +0200
+++ gdb-7.6.1/gdb/linux-tdep.c	2015-11-27 22:31:14.002842001 +0100
@@ -33,9 +33,61 @@
 #include "arch-utils.h"
 #include "gdb_obstack.h"
 #include "cli/cli-utils.h"
+#include "gdbcmd.h"
+#include "gdb_regex.h"
 
 #include <ctype.h>
 
+/* This enum represents the values that the user can choose when
+   informing the Linux kernel about which memory mappings will be
+   dumped in a corefile.  They are described in the file
+   Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, inside the Linux kernel
+   tree.  */
+
+enum
+  {
+    COREFILTER_ANON_PRIVATE = 1 << 0,
+    COREFILTER_ANON_SHARED = 1 << 1,
+    COREFILTER_MAPPED_PRIVATE = 1 << 2,
+    COREFILTER_MAPPED_SHARED = 1 << 3,
+    COREFILTER_ELF_HEADERS = 1 << 4,
+    COREFILTER_HUGETLB_PRIVATE = 1 << 5,
+    COREFILTER_HUGETLB_SHARED = 1 << 6,
+  };
+
+/* This struct is used to map flags found in the "VmFlags:" field (in
+   the /proc/<PID>/smaps file).  */
+
+struct smaps_vmflags
+  {
+    /* Zero if this structure has not been initialized yet.  It
+       probably means that the Linux kernel being used does not emit
+       the "VmFlags:" field on "/proc/PID/smaps".  */
+
+    unsigned int initialized_p : 1;
+
+    /* Memory mapped I/O area (VM_IO, "io").  */
+
+    unsigned int io_page : 1;
+
+    /* Area uses huge TLB pages (VM_HUGETLB, "ht").  */
+
+    unsigned int uses_huge_tlb : 1;
+
+    /* Do not include this memory region on the coredump (VM_DONTDUMP, "dd").  */
+
+    unsigned int exclude_coredump : 1;
+
+    /* Is this a MAP_SHARED mapping (VM_SHARED, "sh").  */
+
+    unsigned int shared_mapping : 1;
+  };
+
+/* Whether to take the /proc/PID/coredump_filter into account when
+   generating a corefile.  */
+
+static int use_coredump_filter = 1;
+
 static struct gdbarch_data *linux_gdbarch_data_handle;
 
 struct linux_gdbarch_data
@@ -245,6 +297,271 @@
   *filename = p;
 }
 
+/* Helper function to decode the "VmFlags" field in /proc/PID/smaps.
+
+   This function was based on the documentation found on
+   <Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt>, on the Linux kernel.
+
+   Linux kernels before commit
+   834f82e2aa9a8ede94b17b656329f850c1471514 (3.10) do not have this
+   field on smaps.  */
+
+static void
+decode_vmflags (char *p, struct smaps_vmflags *v)
+{
+  char *saveptr;
+  const char *s;
+
+  v->initialized_p = 1;
+  p = skip_to_space (p);
+  p = skip_spaces (p);
+
+  for (s = strtok_r (p, " ", &saveptr);
+       s != NULL;
+       s = strtok_r (NULL, " ", &saveptr))
+    {
+      if (strcmp (s, "io") == 0)
+	v->io_page = 1;
+      else if (strcmp (s, "ht") == 0)
+	v->uses_huge_tlb = 1;
+      else if (strcmp (s, "dd") == 0)
+	v->exclude_coredump = 1;
+      else if (strcmp (s, "sh") == 0)
+	v->shared_mapping = 1;
+    }
+}
+
+/* Compile a regexp and throw an exception on error.  This returns a
+   cleanup to free the resulting pattern on success.  RX must not be
+   NULL.  */
+
+static struct cleanup *
+compile_rx_or_error (regex_t *pattern, const char *rx, const char *message)
+{
+  int code;
+
+  gdb_assert (rx != NULL);
+
+  code = regcomp (pattern, rx, REG_NOSUB);
+  if (code != 0)
+    {
+      char *err = get_regcomp_error (code, pattern);
+
+      make_cleanup (xfree, err);
+      error (("%s: %s"), message, err);
+    }
+
+  return make_regfree_cleanup (pattern);
+}
+
+/* Return 1 if the memory mapping is anonymous, 0 otherwise.
+
+   FILENAME is the name of the file present in the first line of the
+   memory mapping, in the "/proc/PID/smaps" output.  For example, if
+   the first line is:
+
+   7fd0ca877000-7fd0d0da0000 r--p 00000000 fd:02 2100770   /path/to/file
+
+   Then FILENAME will be "/path/to/file".  */
+
+static int
+mapping_is_anonymous_p (const char *filename)
+{
+  static regex_t dev_zero_regex, shmem_file_regex, file_deleted_regex;
+  static int init_regex_p = 0;
+
+  if (!init_regex_p)
+    {
+      struct cleanup *c = make_cleanup (null_cleanup, NULL);
+
+      /* Let's be pessimistic and assume there will be an error while
+	 compiling the regex'es.  */
+      init_regex_p = -1;
+
+      /* DEV_ZERO_REGEX matches "/dev/zero" filenames (with or
+	 without the "(deleted)" string in the end).  We know for
+	 sure, based on the Linux kernel code, that memory mappings
+	 whose associated filename is "/dev/zero" are guaranteed to be
+	 MAP_ANONYMOUS.  */
+      compile_rx_or_error (&dev_zero_regex, "^/dev/zero\\( (deleted)\\)\\?$",
+			   _("Could not compile regex to match /dev/zero "
+			     "filename"));
+      /* SHMEM_FILE_REGEX matches "/SYSV%08x" filenames (with or
+	 without the "(deleted)" string in the end).  These filenames
+	 refer to shared memory (shmem), and memory mappings
+	 associated with them are MAP_ANONYMOUS as well.  */
+      compile_rx_or_error (&shmem_file_regex,
+			   "^/\\?SYSV[0-9a-fA-F]\\{8\\}\\( (deleted)\\)\\?$",
+			   _("Could not compile regex to match shmem "
+			     "filenames"));
+      /* FILE_DELETED_REGEX is a heuristic we use to try to mimic the
+	 Linux kernel's 'n_link == 0' code, which is responsible to
+	 decide if it is dealing with a 'MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS'
+	 mapping.  In other words, if FILE_DELETED_REGEX matches, it
+	 does not necessarily mean that we are dealing with an
+	 anonymous shared mapping.  However, there is no easy way to
+	 detect this currently, so this is the best approximation we
+	 have.
+
+	 As a result, GDB will dump readonly pages of deleted
+	 executables when using the default value of coredump_filter
+	 (0x33), while the Linux kernel will not dump those pages.
+	 But we can live with that.  */
+      compile_rx_or_error (&file_deleted_regex, " (deleted)$",
+			   _("Could not compile regex to match "
+			     "'<file> (deleted)'"));
+      /* We will never release these regexes, so just discard the
+	 cleanups.  */
+      discard_cleanups (c);
+
+      /* If we reached this point, then everything succeeded.  */
+      init_regex_p = 1;
+    }
+
+  if (init_regex_p == -1)
+    {
+      const char deleted[] = " (deleted)";
+      size_t del_len = sizeof (deleted) - 1;
+      size_t filename_len = strlen (filename);
+
+      /* There was an error while compiling the regex'es above.  In
+	 order to try to give some reliable information to the caller,
+	 we just try to find the string " (deleted)" in the filename.
+	 If we managed to find it, then we assume the mapping is
+	 anonymous.  */
+      return (filename_len >= del_len
+	      && strcmp (filename + filename_len - del_len, deleted) == 0);
+    }
+
+  if (*filename == '\0'
+      || regexec (&dev_zero_regex, filename, 0, NULL, 0) == 0
+      || regexec (&shmem_file_regex, filename, 0, NULL, 0) == 0
+      || regexec (&file_deleted_regex, filename, 0, NULL, 0) == 0)
+    return 1;
+
+  return 0;
+}
+
+/* Return 0 if the memory mapping (which is related to FILTERFLAGS, V,
+   MAYBE_PRIVATE_P, and MAPPING_ANONYMOUS_P) should not be dumped, or
+   greater than 0 if it should.
+
+   In a nutshell, this is the logic that we follow in order to decide
+   if a mapping should be dumped or not.
+
+   - If the mapping is associated to a file whose name ends with
+     " (deleted)", or if the file is "/dev/zero", or if it is
+     "/SYSV%08x" (shared memory), or if there is no file associated
+     with it, or if the AnonHugePages: or the Anonymous: fields in the
+     /proc/PID/smaps have contents, then GDB considers this mapping to
+     be anonymous.  Otherwise, GDB considers this mapping to be a
+     file-backed mapping (because there will be a file associated with
+     it).
+ 
+     It is worth mentioning that, from all those checks described
+     above, the most fragile is the one to see if the file name ends
+     with " (deleted)".  This does not necessarily mean that the
+     mapping is anonymous, because the deleted file associated with
+     the mapping may have been a hard link to another file, for
+     example.  The Linux kernel checks to see if "i_nlink == 0", but
+     GDB cannot easily (and normally) do this check (iff running as
+     root, it could find the mapping in /proc/PID/map_files/ and
+     determine whether there still are other hard links to the
+     inode/file).  Therefore, we made a compromise here, and we assume
+     that if the file name ends with " (deleted)", then the mapping is
+     indeed anonymous.  FWIW, this is something the Linux kernel could
+     do better: expose this information in a more direct way.
+ 
+   - If we see the flag "sh" in the "VmFlags:" field (in
+     /proc/PID/smaps), then certainly the memory mapping is shared
+     (VM_SHARED).  If we have access to the VmFlags, and we don't see
+     the "sh" there, then certainly the mapping is private.  However,
+     Linux kernels before commit
+     834f82e2aa9a8ede94b17b656329f850c1471514 (3.10) do not have the
+     "VmFlags:" field; in that case, we use another heuristic: if we
+     see 'p' in the permission flags, then we assume that the mapping
+     is private, even though the presence of the 's' flag there would
+     mean VM_MAYSHARE, which means the mapping could still be private.
+     This should work OK enough, however.  */
+
+static int
+dump_mapping_p (unsigned int filterflags, const struct smaps_vmflags *v,
+		int maybe_private_p, int mapping_anon_p, int mapping_file_p,
+		const char *filename)
+{
+  /* Initially, we trust in what we received from our caller.  This
+     value may not be very precise (i.e., it was probably gathered
+     from the permission line in the /proc/PID/smaps list, which
+     actually refers to VM_MAYSHARE, and not VM_SHARED), but it is
+     what we have until we take a look at the "VmFlags:" field
+     (assuming that the version of the Linux kernel being used
+     supports it, of course).  */
+  int private_p = maybe_private_p;
+
+  /* We always dump vDSO and vsyscall mappings, because it's likely that
+     there'll be no file to read the contents from at core load time.
+     The kernel does the same.  */
+  if (strcmp ("[vdso]", filename) == 0
+      || strcmp ("[vsyscall]", filename) == 0)
+    return 1;
+
+  if (v->initialized_p)
+    {
+      /* We never dump I/O mappings.  */
+      if (v->io_page)
+	return 0;
+
+      /* Check if we should exclude this mapping.  */
+      if (v->exclude_coredump)
+	return 0;
+
+      /* Update our notion of whether this mapping is shared or
+	 private based on a trustworthy value.  */
+      private_p = !v->shared_mapping;
+
+      /* HugeTLB checking.  */
+      if (v->uses_huge_tlb)
+	{
+	  if ((private_p && (filterflags & COREFILTER_HUGETLB_PRIVATE))
+	      || (!private_p && (filterflags & COREFILTER_HUGETLB_SHARED)))
+	    return 1;
+
+	  return 0;
+	}
+    }
+
+  if (private_p)
+    {
+      if (mapping_anon_p && mapping_file_p)
+	{
+	  /* This is a special situation.  It can happen when we see a
+	     mapping that is file-backed, but that contains anonymous
+	     pages.  */
+	  return ((filterflags & COREFILTER_ANON_PRIVATE) != 0
+		  || (filterflags & COREFILTER_MAPPED_PRIVATE) != 0);
+	}
+      else if (mapping_anon_p)
+	return (filterflags & COREFILTER_ANON_PRIVATE) != 0;
+      else
+	return (filterflags & COREFILTER_MAPPED_PRIVATE) != 0;
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      if (mapping_anon_p && mapping_file_p)
+	{
+	  /* This is a special situation.  It can happen when we see a
+	     mapping that is file-backed, but that contains anonymous
+	     pages.  */
+	  return ((filterflags & COREFILTER_ANON_SHARED) != 0
+		  || (filterflags & COREFILTER_MAPPED_SHARED) != 0);
+	}
+      else if (mapping_anon_p)
+	return (filterflags & COREFILTER_ANON_SHARED) != 0;
+      else
+	return (filterflags & COREFILTER_MAPPED_SHARED) != 0;
+    }
+}
+
 /* Implement the "info proc" command.  */
 
 static void
@@ -676,48 +993,97 @@
 				void *obfd)
 {
   char mapsfilename[100];
-  gdb_byte *data;
+  char coredumpfilter_name[100];
+  char *data, *coredumpfilterdata;
+  pid_t pid;
+  /* Default dump behavior of coredump_filter (0x33), according to
+     Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt from the Linux kernel
+     tree.  */
+  unsigned int filterflags = (COREFILTER_ANON_PRIVATE
+			      | COREFILTER_ANON_SHARED
+			      | COREFILTER_ELF_HEADERS
+			      | COREFILTER_HUGETLB_PRIVATE);
 
   /* We need to know the real target PID to access /proc.  */
   if (current_inferior ()->fake_pid_p)
     return 1;
 
-  xsnprintf (mapsfilename, sizeof mapsfilename,
-	     "/proc/%d/smaps", current_inferior ()->pid);
+  pid = current_inferior ()->pid;
+
+  if (use_coredump_filter)
+    {
+      xsnprintf (coredumpfilter_name, sizeof (coredumpfilter_name),
+		 "/proc/%d/coredump_filter", pid);
+      coredumpfilterdata = target_fileio_read_stralloc (coredumpfilter_name);
+      if (coredumpfilterdata != NULL)
+	{
+	  sscanf (coredumpfilterdata, "%x", &filterflags);
+	  xfree (coredumpfilterdata);
+	}
+    }
+
+  xsnprintf (mapsfilename, sizeof mapsfilename, "/proc/%d/smaps", pid);
   data = target_fileio_read_stralloc (mapsfilename);
   if (data == NULL)
     {
       /* Older Linux kernels did not support /proc/PID/smaps.  */
-      xsnprintf (mapsfilename, sizeof mapsfilename,
-		 "/proc/%d/maps", current_inferior ()->pid);
+      xsnprintf (mapsfilename, sizeof mapsfilename, "/proc/%d/maps", pid);
       data = target_fileio_read_stralloc (mapsfilename);
     }
-  if (data)
+
+  if (data != NULL)
     {
       struct cleanup *cleanup = make_cleanup (xfree, data);
-      char *line;
+      char *line, *t;
 
-      line = strtok (data, "\n");
-      while (line)
+      line = strtok_r (data, "\n", &t);
+      while (line != NULL)
 	{
 	  ULONGEST addr, endaddr, offset, inode;
 	  const char *permissions, *device, *filename;
+	  struct smaps_vmflags v;
 	  size_t permissions_len, device_len;
-	  int read, write, exec;
-	  int modified = 0, has_anonymous = 0;
+	  int read, write, exec, private;
+	  int has_anonymous = 0;
+	  int should_dump_p = 0;
+	  int mapping_anon_p;
+	  int mapping_file_p;
 
+	  memset (&v, 0, sizeof (v));
 	  read_mapping (line, &addr, &endaddr, &permissions, &permissions_len,
 			&offset, &device, &device_len, &inode, &filename);
+	  mapping_anon_p = mapping_is_anonymous_p (filename);
+	  /* If the mapping is not anonymous, then we can consider it
+	     to be file-backed.  These two states (anonymous or
+	     file-backed) seem to be exclusive, but they can actually
+	     coexist.  For example, if a file-backed mapping has
+	     "Anonymous:" pages (see more below), then the Linux
+	     kernel will dump this mapping when the user specified
+	     that she only wants anonymous mappings in the corefile
+	     (*even* when she explicitly disabled the dumping of
+	     file-backed mappings).  */
+	  mapping_file_p = !mapping_anon_p;
 
 	  /* Decode permissions.  */
 	  read = (memchr (permissions, 'r', permissions_len) != 0);
 	  write = (memchr (permissions, 'w', permissions_len) != 0);
 	  exec = (memchr (permissions, 'x', permissions_len) != 0);
-
-	  /* Try to detect if region was modified by parsing smaps counters.  */
-	  for (line = strtok (NULL, "\n");
-	       line && line[0] >= 'A' && line[0] <= 'Z';
-	       line = strtok (NULL, "\n"))
+	  /* 'private' here actually means VM_MAYSHARE, and not
+	     VM_SHARED.  In order to know if a mapping is really
+	     private or not, we must check the flag "sh" in the
+	     VmFlags field.  This is done by decode_vmflags.  However,
+	     if we are using a Linux kernel released before the commit
+	     834f82e2aa9a8ede94b17b656329f850c1471514 (3.10), we will
+	     not have the VmFlags there.  In this case, there is
+	     really no way to know if we are dealing with VM_SHARED,
+	     so we just assume that VM_MAYSHARE is enough.  */
+	  private = memchr (permissions, 'p', permissions_len) != 0;
+
+	  /* Try to detect if region should be dumped by parsing smaps
+	     counters.  */
+	  for (line = strtok_r (NULL, "\n", &t);
+	       line != NULL && line[0] >= 'A' && line[0] <= 'Z';
+	       line = strtok_r (NULL, "\n", &t))
 	    {
 	      char keyword[64 + 1];
 
@@ -726,11 +1092,17 @@
 		  warning (_("Error parsing {s,}maps file '%s'"), mapsfilename);
 		  break;
 		}
+
 	      if (strcmp (keyword, "Anonymous:") == 0)
-		has_anonymous = 1;
-	      if (strcmp (keyword, "Shared_Dirty:") == 0
-		  || strcmp (keyword, "Private_Dirty:") == 0
-		  || strcmp (keyword, "Swap:") == 0
+		{
+		  /* Older Linux kernels did not support the
+		     "Anonymous:" counter.  Check it here.  */
+		  has_anonymous = 1;
+		}
+	      else if (strcmp (keyword, "VmFlags:") == 0)
+		decode_vmflags (line, &v);
+
+	      if (strcmp (keyword, "AnonHugePages:") == 0
 		  || strcmp (keyword, "Anonymous:") == 0)
 		{
 		  unsigned long number;
@@ -741,19 +1113,46 @@
 			       mapsfilename);
 		      break;
 		    }
-		  if (number != 0)
-		    modified = 1;
+		  if (number > 0)
+		    {
+		      /* Even if we are dealing with a file-backed
+			 mapping, if it contains anonymous pages we
+			 consider it to be *also* an anonymous
+			 mapping, because this is what the Linux
+			 kernel does:
+
+			 // Dump segments that have been written to.
+			 if (vma->anon_vma && FILTER(ANON_PRIVATE))
+			 	goto whole;
+
+			 Note that if the mapping is already marked as
+			 file-backed (i.e., mapping_file_p is
+			 non-zero), then this is a special case, and
+			 this mapping will be dumped either when the
+			 user wants to dump file-backed *or* anonymous
+			 mappings.  */
+		      mapping_anon_p = 1;
+		    }
 		}
 	    }
 
-	  /* Older Linux kernels did not support the "Anonymous:" counter.
-	     If it is missing, we can't be sure - dump all the pages.  */
-	  if (!has_anonymous)
-	    modified = 1;
+	  if (has_anonymous)
+	    should_dump_p = dump_mapping_p (filterflags, &v, private,
+					    mapping_anon_p, mapping_file_p,
+					    filename);
+	  else
+	    {
+	      /* Older Linux kernels did not support the "Anonymous:" counter.
+		 If it is missing, we can't be sure - dump all the pages.  */
+	      should_dump_p = 1;
+	    }
 
 	  /* Invoke the callback function to create the corefile segment.  */
-	  func (addr, endaddr - addr, offset, inode,
-		read, write, exec, modified, filename, obfd);
+	  if (should_dump_p)
+	    func (addr, endaddr - addr, offset, inode,
+		  read, write, exec, 1, /* MODIFIED is true because we
+					   want to dump the mapping.  */
+		  filename, obfd);
 	}
 
       do_cleanups (cleanup);
@@ -1447,6 +1846,17 @@
 				      linux_collect_thread_registers);
 }
 
+/* Display whether the gcore command is using the
+   /proc/PID/coredump_filter file.  */
+
+static void
+show_use_coredump_filter (struct ui_file *file, int from_tty,
+			  struct cmd_list_element *c, const char *value)
+{
+  fprintf_filtered (file, _("Use of /proc/PID/coredump_filter file to generate"
+			    " corefiles is %s.\n"), value);
+}
+
 /* To be called from the various GDB_OSABI_LINUX handlers for the
    various GNU/Linux architectures and machine types.  */
 
@@ -1470,4 +1880,16 @@
 {
   linux_gdbarch_data_handle =
     gdbarch_data_register_post_init (init_linux_gdbarch_data);
+
+  add_setshow_boolean_cmd ("use-coredump-filter", class_files,
+			   &use_coredump_filter, _("\
+Set whether gcore should consider /proc/PID/coredump_filter."),
+			   _("\
+Show whether gcore should consider /proc/PID/coredump_filter."),
+			   _("\
+Use this command to set whether gcore should consider the contents\n\
+of /proc/PID/coredump_filter when generating the corefile.  For more information\n\
+about this file, refer to the manpage of core(5)."),
+			   NULL, show_use_coredump_filter,
+			   &setlist, &showlist);
 }
Index: gdb-7.6.1/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/coredump-filter.c
===================================================================
--- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ gdb-7.6.1/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/coredump-filter.c	2015-11-27 22:31:14.002842001 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/* Copyright 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This file is part of GDB.
+
+   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <assert.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+static void *
+do_mmap (void *addr, size_t size, int prot, int flags, int fd, off_t offset)
+{
+  void *ret = mmap (addr, size, prot, flags, fd, offset);
+
+  assert (ret != NULL);
+  return ret;
+}
+
+int
+main (int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+  const size_t size = 10;
+  const int default_prot = PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE;
+  char *private_anon, *shared_anon;
+  char *dont_dump;
+  int i;
+
+  private_anon = do_mmap (NULL, size, default_prot,
+			  MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
+  memset (private_anon, 0x11, size);
+
+  shared_anon = do_mmap (NULL, size, default_prot,
+			 MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
+  memset (shared_anon, 0x22, size);
+
+  dont_dump = do_mmap (NULL, size, default_prot,
+		       MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
+  memset (dont_dump, 0x55, size);
+  i = madvise (dont_dump, size, MADV_DONTDUMP);
+  assert_perror (errno);
+  assert (i == 0);
+
+  return 0; /* break-here */
+}
Index: gdb-7.6.1/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/coredump-filter.exp
===================================================================
--- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ gdb-7.6.1/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/coredump-filter.exp	2015-11-27 22:37:28.816872494 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,265 @@
+# Copyright 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+standard_testfile
+
+if { [prepare_for_testing "failed to prepare" $testfile $srcfile debug] } {
+    untested "could not compile test program"
+    return -1
+}
+
+if { ![runto_main] } {
+    untested "could not run to main"
+    return -1
+}
+
+gdb_breakpoint [gdb_get_line_number "break-here"]
+gdb_continue_to_breakpoint "break-here" ".* break-here .*"
+
+# Invoke "gcore".  CORE is the name of the core file to write.  TEST
+# is the name of the test case.  This will return 1 if the core file
+# was created, 0 otherwise.  If this fails to make a core file because
+# this configuration of gdb does not support making core files, it
+# will call "unsupported", not "fail".  However, if this fails to make
+# a core file for some other reason, then it will call "fail".
+
+proc gdb_gcore_cmd {core test} {
+    global gdb_prompt
+
+    set result 0
+    gdb_test_multiple "gcore $core" $test {
+	-re "Saved corefile .*\[\r\n\]+$gdb_prompt $" {
+	    pass $test
+	    set result 1
+	}
+	-re "(?:Can't create a corefile|Target does not support core file generation\\.)\[\r\n\]+$gdb_prompt $" {
+	    unsupported $test
+	}
+    }
+
+    return $result
+}
+
+# Load core file CORE.  TEST is the name of the test case.
+# This will record a pass/fail for loading the core file.
+# Returns:
+#  1 - core file is successfully loaded
+#  0 - core file loaded but has a non fatal error
+# -1 - core file failed to load
+
+proc gdb_core_cmd { core test } {
+    global gdb_prompt
+
+    gdb_test_multiple "core $core" "$test" {
+	-re "\\\[Thread debugging using \[^ \r\n\]* enabled\\\]\r\n" {
+	    exp_continue
+	}
+	-re " is not a core dump:.*\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
+	    fail "$test (bad file format)"
+	    return -1
+	}
+	-re ": No such file or directory.*\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
+	    fail "$test (file not found)"
+	    return -1
+	}
+	-re "Couldn't find .* registers in core file.*\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
+	    fail "$test (incomplete note section)"
+	    return 0
+	}
+	-re "Core was generated by .*\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
+	    pass "$test"
+	    return 1
+	}
+	-re ".*$gdb_prompt $" {
+	    fail "$test"
+	    return -1
+	}
+	timeout {
+	    fail "$test (timeout)"
+	    return -1
+	}
+    }
+    fail "unsupported output from 'core' command"
+    return -1
+}
+
+proc do_save_core { filter_flag core ipid } {
+    verbose -log "writing $filter_flag to /proc/$ipid/coredump_filter"
+
+    remote_exec target "sh -c \"echo $filter_flag > /proc/$ipid/coredump_filter\""
+
+    # Generate a corefile.
+    gdb_gcore_cmd "$core" "save corefile"
+}
+
+proc do_load_and_test_core { core var working_var working_value } {
+    global hex decimal addr
+
+    set core_loaded [gdb_core_cmd "$core" "load core"]
+    if { $core_loaded == -1 } {
+	fail "loading $core"
+	return
+    }
+
+    # Access the memory the addresses point to.
+    gdb_test "print/x *(char *) $addr($var)" "\(\\\$$decimal = <error: \)?Cannot access memory at address $hex\(>\)?" \
+	"printing $var when core is loaded (should not work)"
+    gdb_test "print/x *(char *) $addr($working_var)" " = $working_value.*" \
+	"print/x *$working_var ( = $working_value)"
+}
+
+# We do not do file-backed mappings in the test program, but it is
+# important to test this anyway.  One way of performing the test is to
+# load GDB with a corefile but without a binary, and then ask for the
+# disassemble of a function (i.e., the binary's .text section).  GDB
+# should fail in this case.  However, it must succeed if the binary is
+# provided along with the corefile.  This is what we test here.
+
+proc test_disasm { core address should_fail } {
+    global testfile hex
+
+    # Restart GDB without loading the binary.
+    with_test_prefix "no binary" {
+	gdb_exit
+	gdb_start
+
+	set core_loaded [gdb_core_cmd "$core" "load core"]
+	if { $core_loaded == -1 } {
+	    fail "loading $core"
+	    return
+	}
+
+	if { $should_fail == 1 } {
+	    gdb_test "x/i \$pc" "=> $hex:\tCannot access memory at address $hex" \
+		"disassemble function with corefile and without a binary"
+	} else {
+	    gdb_test "x/i \$pc" "=> $hex:\t\[^C\].*" \
+		"disassemble function with corefile and without a binary"
+	}
+    }
+
+    with_test_prefix "with binary" {
+	clean_restart $testfile
+
+	set core_loaded [gdb_core_cmd "$core" "load core"]
+	if { $core_loaded == -1 } {
+	    fail "loading $core"
+	    return
+	}
+
+	gdb_test "disassemble $address" "Dump of assembler code for function.*" \
+	    "disassemble function with corefile and with a binary"
+    }
+}
+
+set non_private_anon_core [standard_output_file non-private-anon.gcore]
+set non_shared_anon_core [standard_output_file non-shared-anon.gcore]
+# A corefile without {private,shared} {anonymous,file-backed} pages
+set non_private_shared_anon_file_core [standard_output_file non-private-shared-anon-file.gcore]
+set dont_dump_core [standard_output_file dont-dump.gcore]
+
+# We will generate a few corefiles.
+#
+# This list is composed by sub-lists, and their elements are (in
+# order):
+#
+# - name of the test
+# - hexadecimal value to be put in the /proc/PID/coredump_filter file
+# - name of the variable that contains the name of the corefile to be
+#   generated (including the initial $).
+# - name of the variable in the C source code that points to the
+#   memory mapping that will NOT be present in the corefile.
+# - name of a variable in the C source code that points to a memory
+#   mapping that WILL be present in the corefile
+# - corresponding value expected for the above variable
+#
+# This list refers to the corefiles generated by MAP_ANONYMOUS in the
+# test program.
+
+set all_anon_corefiles { { "non-Private-Anonymous" "0x7e" \
+			       $non_private_anon_core \
+			       "private_anon" \
+			       "shared_anon" "0x22" }
+    { "non-Shared-Anonymous" "0x7d" \
+	  $non_shared_anon_core "shared_anon" \
+	  "private_anon" "0x11" }
+    { "DoNotDump" "0x33" \
+	  $dont_dump_core "dont_dump" \
+	  "shared_anon" "0x22" } }
+
+# If corefile loading is not supported, we do not even try to run the
+# tests.
+set core_supported [gdb_gcore_cmd "$non_private_anon_core" "save a corefile"]
+if { !$core_supported } {
+    untested "corefile generation is not supported"
+    return -1
+}
+
+# Get the inferior's PID.
+set infpid ""
+gdb_test_multiple "info inferiors" "getting inferior pid" {
+    -re "process \($decimal\).*\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
+	set infpid $expect_out(1,string)
+    }
+}
+
+# Get the main function's address.
+set main_addr ""
+gdb_test_multiple "print/x &main" "getting main's address" {
+    -re "$decimal = \($hex\)\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
+	set main_addr $expect_out(1,string)
+    }
+}
+
+# Obtain the address of each variable that will be checked on each
+# case.
+foreach item $all_anon_corefiles {
+    foreach name [list [lindex $item 3] [lindex $item 4]] {
+	set test "print/x $name"
+	gdb_test_multiple $test $test {
+	    -re " = \($hex\)\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
+		set addr($name) $expect_out(1,string)
+	    }
+	}
+    }
+}
+
+# Generate corefiles for the "anon" case.
+foreach item $all_anon_corefiles {
+    with_test_prefix "saving corefile for [lindex $item 0]" {
+	do_save_core [lindex $item 1] [subst [lindex $item 2]] $infpid
+    }
+}
+
+with_test_prefix "saving corefile for non-Private-Shared-Anon-File" {
+    do_save_core "0x60" $non_private_shared_anon_file_core $infpid
+}
+
+clean_restart $testfile
+
+foreach item $all_anon_corefiles {
+    with_test_prefix "loading and testing corefile for [lindex $item 0]" {
+	do_load_and_test_core [subst [lindex $item 2]] [lindex $item 3] \
+	    [lindex $item 4] [lindex $item 5]
+    }
+
+    with_test_prefix "disassembling function main for [lindex $item 0]" {
+	test_disasm [subst [lindex $item 2]] $main_addr 0
+    }
+}
+
+with_test_prefix "loading and testing corefile for non-Private-Shared-Anon-File" {
+    test_disasm $non_private_shared_anon_file_core $main_addr 1
+}