Merge patch series "coredump: further cleanups"

Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says:

Continue reworking the coredump code so it's easier to follow and modify
in the future.

* Each method is moved into a separate helper.
* The cleanup code is simplified and unified.
* Entangle the dependency between the pipe coredump rate limiting and
  the common exit path.

It's likely that there'll be more.

* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/20250612-work-coredump-massage-v1-0-315c0c34ba94@kernel.org: (24 commits)
  coredump: add coredump_skip() helper
  coredump: avoid pointless variable
  coredump: order auto cleanup variables at the top
  coredump: add coredump_cleanup()
  coredump: auto cleanup prepare_creds()
  cred: add auto cleanup method
  coredump: directly return
  coredump: auto cleanup argv
  coredump: add coredump_write()
  coredump: use a single helper for the socket
  coredump: move pipe specific file check into coredump_pipe()
  coredump: split pipe coredumping into coredump_pipe()
  coredump: move core_pipe_count to global variable
  coredump: prepare to simplify exit paths
  coredump: split file coredumping into coredump_file()
  coredump: rename do_coredump() to vfs_coredump()
  selftests/coredump: make sure invalid paths are rejected
  coredump: validate socket path in coredump_parse()
  coredump: don't allow ".." in coredump socket path
  fs: move name_contains_dotdot() to header
  ...

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250612-work-coredump-massage-v1-0-315c0c34ba94@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

Author: brauner

Documentation/security/credentials.rst

@@ -555,5 +555,5 @@ the VFS, and that can be done by calling into such as ``vfs_mkdir()`` with a
 different set of credentials.  This is done in the following places:
 
  * ``sys_faccessat()``.
- * ``do_coredump()``.
+ * ``vfs_coredump()``.
  * nfs4recover.c.

Documentation/translations/zh_CN/security/credentials.rst

@@ -475,5 +475,5 @@ const指针上操作，因此不需要进行类型转换，但需要临时放弃
 如 ``vfs_mkdir()`` 来实现。以下是一些进行此操作的位置:
 
  * ``sys_faccessat()``.
- * ``do_coredump()``.
+ * ``vfs_coredump()``.
  * nfs4recover.c.

drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c

@@ -822,26 +822,6 @@ static void fw_log_firmware_info(const struct firmware *fw, const char *name,
 {}
 #endif
 
-/*
- * Reject firmware file names with ".." path components.
- * There are drivers that construct firmware file names from device-supplied
- * strings, and we don't want some device to be able to tell us "I would like to
- * be sent my firmware from ../../../etc/shadow, please".
- *
- * Search for ".." surrounded by either '/' or start/end of string.
- *
- * This intentionally only looks at the firmware name, not at the firmware base
- * directory or at symlink contents.
- */
-static bool name_contains_dotdot(const char *name)
-{
-	size_t name_len = strlen(name);
-
-	return strcmp(name, "..") == 0 || strncmp(name, "../", 3) == 0 ||
-	       strstr(name, "/../") != NULL ||
-	       (name_len >= 3 && strcmp(name+name_len-3, "/..") == 0);
-}
-
 /* called from request_firmware() and request_firmware_work_func() */
 static int
 _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
@@ -862,6 +842,17 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+
+	/*
+	 * Reject firmware file names with ".." path components.
+	 * There are drivers that construct firmware file names from
+	 * device-supplied strings, and we don't want some device to be
+	 * able to tell us "I would like to be sent my firmware from
+	 * ../../../etc/shadow, please".
+	 *
+	 * This intentionally only looks at the firmware name, not at
+	 * the firmware base directory or at symlink contents.
+	 */
 	if (name_contains_dotdot(name)) {
 		dev_warn(device,
 			 "Firmware load for '%s' refused, path contains '..' component\n",