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authorMasoud Asgharifard Sharbiani <masouds@google.com>2007-07-22 05:12:28 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-22 14:03:37 -0400
commitabd4f7505bafdd6c5319fe3cb5caf9af6104e17a (patch)
treea543fce720331dbf6194a2c0471f36b7727b9736 /arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
parent5fa63fccc579ac609fc7f86d29ccb3a2edf910d7 (diff)
x86: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3
This patch makes the i386 behave the same way that x86_64 does when a segfault happens. A line gets printed to the kernel log so that tools that need to check for failures can behave more uniformly between debug.show_unhandled_signals sysctl variable to 0 (or by doing echo 0 > /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace) Also, all of the lines being printed are now using printk_ratelimit() to deny the ability of DoS from a local user with a program like the following: main() { while (1) if (!fork()) *(int *)0 = 0; } This new revision also includes the fix that Andrew did which got rid of new sysctl that was added to the system in earlier versions of this. Also, 'show-unhandled-signals' sysctl has been renamed back to the old 'exception-trace' to avoid breakage of people's scripts. AK: Enabling by default for i386 will be likely controversal, but let's see what happens AK: Really folks, before complaining just fix your segfaults AK: I bet this will find a lot of silent issues Signed-off-by: Masoud Sharbiani <masouds@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> [ Personally, I've found the complaints useful on x86-64, so I'm all for this. That said, I wonder if we could do it more prettily.. -Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/mm/init.c')
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
index 381c2ecd407..88678e82e23 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
@@ -697,39 +697,6 @@ int kern_addr_valid(unsigned long addr)
697 return pfn_valid(pte_pfn(*pte)); 697 return pfn_valid(pte_pfn(*pte));
698} 698}
699 699
700#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
701#include <linux/sysctl.h>
702
703static ctl_table debug_table2[] = {
704 {
705 .ctl_name = 99,
706 .procname = "exception-trace",
707 .data = &exception_trace,
708 .maxlen = sizeof(int),
709 .mode = 0644,
710 .proc_handler = proc_dointvec
711 },
712 {}
713};
714
715static ctl_table debug_root_table2[] = {
716 {
717 .ctl_name = CTL_DEBUG,
718 .procname = "debug",
719 .mode = 0555,
720 .child = debug_table2
721 },
722 {}
723};
724
725static __init int x8664_sysctl_init(void)
726{
727 register_sysctl_table(debug_root_table2);
728 return 0;
729}
730__initcall(x8664_sysctl_init);
731#endif
732
733/* A pseudo VMA to allow ptrace access for the vsyscall page. This only 700/* A pseudo VMA to allow ptrace access for the vsyscall page. This only
734 covers the 64bit vsyscall page now. 32bit has a real VMA now and does 701 covers the 64bit vsyscall page now. 32bit has a real VMA now and does
735 not need special handling anymore. */ 702 not need special handling anymore. */