Comment 3 for bug 119267

I think I found the possible culprit in

  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-gutsy.git;a=blob;h=f9e8f6f87008cc519073282ed66787c528b65665;hb=36c1aeac3968fa6ea0899e2c619a5c69a4350b52;f=fs/exec.c#l1545

It says "if (corename[0] == '|') {" and overrides the limit if true. However, corename is a local variable in do_coredump() and does not get initialized before line 1567. Thus Line 1545 should be

  if (core_pattern[0] == '|') {