Bug 1705157

Summary:	ABRT does not respect ulimit
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Piyush Bhoot <pbhoot>
Component:	man-pages-overrides	Assignee:	Nikola Forró <nforro>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Jež <djez>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.7	CC:	djez, fkrska, msuchy, nforro, ovasik
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ManPageChange, Reopened
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Fixed In Version:	man-pages-overrides-7.8.0-1.el7	Doc Type:	No Doc Update
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Last Closed:	2020-03-31 19:40:34 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1738563

Description Piyush Bhoot 2019-05-01 16:20:07 UTC

Description of problem:
ABRT does not respect ulimit values.
Coredump is generated even if core is set to 0


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
abrt-2.1.11-50.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.ulimit -c 0
2. cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern 
|/usr/libexec/abrt-hook-ccpp %s %c %p %u %g %t e %P %I %h
3. sleep 1000&
4. kill -11 $!

Actual results:
Crash report generated in /var/spool/abrt

Expected results:
No crash report (or ulimit value respected)


Additional info:
If this is expected behavior what is role of %c here?
On FC 29 no crash report generated if limit is 0

Comment 3 Miroslav Suchý 2019-06-25 13:49:18 UTC

This was always this way. And it was always documented this way. I understand, that it would be nice to parse %c, but this would be a feature. With RHEL7 currently being already in Maintainance 1 phase, this will not get into RHEL 7.
In RHEL 8, this hook is not used as ABRT reads code dumps from coredumpctl - so it does not have the sense to work on this in upstream as well.

Comment 6 Nikola Forró 2019-06-26 09:10:15 UTC

Upstream commit to backport:
https://github.com/mkerrisk/man-pages/commit/97839a765d584aa4c46a1917f142915c91a9d61b

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-31 19:40:34 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:1025