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* kmsg_dump: Dump on crash_kexec as wellKOSAKI Motohiro2009-12-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | crash_kexec gets called before kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_OOPS) if panic_on_oops is set, so the kernel log buffer is not stored for this case. This patch adds a KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC dump type which gets called when crash_kexec() is invoked. To avoid getting double dumps, the old KMSG_DUMP_PANIC is moved below crash_kexec(). The mtdoops driver is modified to handle KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC in the same way as a panic. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-12-16
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (90 commits) jffs2: Fix long-standing bug with symlink garbage collection. mtd: OneNAND: Fix test of unsigned in onenand_otp_walk() mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002, fix lock imbalance Revert "mtd: move mxcnd_remove to .exit.text" mtd: m25p80: add support for Macronix MX25L4005A kmsg_dump: fix build for CONFIG_PRINTK=n mtd: nandsim: add support for 4KiB pages mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable mtd: mtdoops: limit the maximum mtd partition size mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups core: Add kernel message dumper to call on oopses and panics mtd: add ARM pismo support mtd: pxa3xx_nand: Fix PIO data transfer mtd: nand: fix multi-chip suspend problem mtd: add support for switching old SST chips into QRY mode mtd: fix M29W800D dev_id and uaddr mtd: don't use PF_MEMALLOC mtd: Add bad block table overrides to Davinci NAND driver ... Fixed up conflicts (mostly trivial) in drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c kernel/printk.c
| * core: Add kernel message dumper to call on oopses and panicsSimon Kagstrom2009-11-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The core functionality is implemented as per Linus suggestion from http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-October/027620.html (with the kmsg_dump implementation by Linus). A struct kmsg_dumper has been added which contains a callback to dump the kernel log buffers on crashes. The kmsg_dump function gets called from oops_exit() and panic() and invokes this callbacks with the crash reason. [dwmw2: Fix log_end handling] Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* | Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-10-08
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: futex: fix requeue_pi key imbalance futex: Fix typo in FUTEX_WAIT/WAKE_BITSET_PRIVATE definitions rcu: Place root rcu_node structure in separate lockdep class rcu: Make hot-unplugged CPU relinquish its own RCU callbacks rcu: Move rcu_barrier() to rcutree futex: Move exit_pi_state() call to release_mm() futex: Nullify robust lists after cleanup futex: Fix locking imbalance panic: Fix panic message visibility by calling bust_spinlocks(0) before dying rcu: Replace the rcu_barrier enum with pointer to call_rcu*() function rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 4 rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 3 rcu: Fix rcu_lock_map build failure on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y rcu: Clean up code to address Ingo's checkpatch feedback rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 2 rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett
| * panic: Fix panic message visibility by calling bust_spinlocks(0) before dyingAaro Koskinen2009-10-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit ffd71da4e3f ("panic: decrease oops_in_progress only after having done the panic") moved bust_spinlocks(0) to the end of the function, which in practice is never reached. As a result console_unblank() is not called, and on some systems the user may not see the panic message. Move it back up to before the unblanking. Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1254483680-25578-1-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | trivial: Correct print_tainted routine name in commentRobert P. J. Day2009-09-21
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* trace: stop tracer in oops_enter()Thomas Gleixner2009-07-24
| | | | | | | | | If trace_printk_on_oops is set we lose interesting trace information when the tracer is enabled across oops handling and printing. We want the trace which might give us information _WHY_ we oopsed. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* Fix caller information for warn_slowpath_nullLinus Torvalds2009-05-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ian Campbell noticed that since "Eliminate thousands of warnings with gcc 3.2 build" (commit 57adc4d2dbf968fdbe516359688094eef4d46581) all WARN_ON()'s currently appear to come from warn_slowpath_null(), eg: WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:143 warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x20() because now that warn_slowpath_null() is in the call path, the __builtin_return_address(0) returns that, rather than the place that caused the warning. Fix this by splitting up the warn_slowpath_null/fmt cases differently, using a common helper function, and getting the return address in the right place. This also happens to avoid the unnecessary stack usage for the non-stdargs case, and just generally cleans things up. Make the function name printout use %pS while at it. Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Eliminate thousands of warnings with gcc 3.2 buildAndi Kleen2009-05-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When building with gcc 3.2 I get thousands of warnings such as include/linux/gfp.h: In function `allocflags_to_migratetype': include/linux/gfp.h:105: warning: null format string due to passing a NULL format string to warn_slowpath() in #define __WARN() warn_slowpath(__FILE__, __LINE__, NULL) Split this case out into a separate call. This also shrinks the kernel slightly: text data bss dec hex filename 4802274 707668 712704 6222646 5ef336 vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 4799027 703572 712704 6215303 5ed687 vmlinux due to removeing one argument from the commonly-called __WARN(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: reduce scope of `empty'] Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* locking: clarify kernel-taint warning messageIngo Molnar2009-04-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Andi Kleen reported this message triggering on non-lockdep kernels: Disabling lockdep due to kernel taint Clarify the message to say 'lock debugging' - debug_locks_off() turns off all things lock debugging, not just lockdep. [ Impact: change kernel warning message text ] Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* lockdep: continue lock debugging despite some taintsFrederic Weisbecker2009-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: broaden lockdep checks Lockdep is disabled after any kernel taints. This might be convenient to ignore bad locking issues which sources come from outside the kernel tree. Nevertheless, it might be a frustrating experience for the staging developers or those who experience a warning but are focused on another things that require lockdep. The v2 of this patch simply don't disable anymore lockdep in case of TAINT_CRAP and TAINT_WARN events. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: LTP <ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taintFrederic Weisbecker2009-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: provide useful missing info for developers Kernel taint can occur in several situations such as warnings, load of prorietary or staging modules, bad page, etc... But when such taint happens, a developer might still be working on the kernel, expecting that lockdep is still enabled. But a taint disables lockdep without ever warning about it. Such a kernel behaviour doesn't really help for kernel development. This patch adds this missing warning. Since the taint is done most of the time after the main message that explain the real source issue, it seems safe to warn about it inside add_taint() so that it appears at last, without hurting the main information. v2: Use a generic helper to disable lockdep instead of an open coded xchg(). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* panic: clean up kernel/panic.cIngo Molnar2009-03-13
| | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup, no code changed Clean up kernel/panic.c some more and make it more consistent. LKML-Reference: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* panic, smp: provide smp_send_stop() wrapper on UP tooIngo Molnar2009-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup, no code changed Remove an ugly #ifdef CONFIG_SMP from panic(), by providing an smp_send_stop() wrapper on UP too. LKML-Reference: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* panic: decrease oops_in_progress only after having done the panicIngo Molnar2009-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: eliminate secondary warnings during panic() We can panic() in a number of difficult, atomic contexts, hence we use bust_spinlocks(1) in panic() to increase oops_in_progress, which prevents various debug checks we have in place. But in practice this protection only covers the first few printk's done by panic() - it does not cover the later attempt to stop all other CPUs and kexec(). If a secondary warning triggers in one of those facilities that can make the panic message scroll off. So do bust_spinlocks(0) only much later in panic(). (which code is only reached if panic policy is relaxed that it can return after a warning message) Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* stackprotector: update make rulesTejun Heo2009-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: no default -fno-stack-protector if stackp is enabled, cleanup Stackprotector make rules had the following problems. * cc support test and warning are scattered across makefile and kernel/panic.c. * -fno-stack-protector was always added regardless of configuration. Update such that cc support test and warning are contained in makefile and -fno-stack-protector is added iff stackp is turned off. While at it, prepare for 32bit support. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'core/percpu' into stackprotectorIngo Molnar2009-01-18
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h arch/x86/include/asm/system.h Also, moved include/asm-x86/stackprotector.h to arch/x86/include/asm. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * oops: increment the oops UUID every time we oopsArjan van de Ven2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... because we do want repeated same-oops to be seen by automated tools like kerneloops.org Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotectorIngo Molnar2008-12-31
|\| | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h kernel/fork.c
| * Merge branch 'core/debug' into core/coreIngo Molnar2008-12-25
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| | * debug warnings: eliminate warn_on_slowpath()Ingo Molnar2008-11-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup, eliminate code now that warn_on_slowpath() uses warn_slowpath(...,NULL), we can eliminate warn_on_slowpath() altogether and use warn_slowpath(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * debug warnings: print the DMI board info name in a WARN/WARN_ONArjan van de Ven2008-11-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: extend WARN_ON() output with DMI_PRODUCT_NAME It's very useful for many low level WARN_ON's to find out which motherboard has the broken BIOS etc... this patch adds a printk to the WARN_ON code for this. On architectures without DMI, gcc should optimize the code out. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * debug warnings: consolidate warn_slowpath and warn_on_slowpathArjan van de Ven2008-11-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup, code reduction warn_slowpath is a superset of warn_on_slowpath; just have warn_on_slowpath call warn_slowpath with a NULL 3rd argument. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | taint: add missing commentArjan van de Ven2008-12-01
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The description for 'D' was missing in the comment... (causing me a minute of WTF followed by looking at more of the code) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * Make panic= and panic_on_oops into core_paramsRusty Russell2008-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows them to be examined and set after boot, plus means they actually give errors if they are misused (eg. panic=yes). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
| * Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6Linus Torvalds2008-10-17
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (25 commits) staging: at76_usb wireless driver Staging: workaround build system bug Staging: Lindent sxg.c Staging: SLICOSS: Call pci_release_regions at driver exit Staging: SLICOSS: Fix remaining type names Staging: SLICOSS: Fix warnings due to static usage Staging: SLICOSS: lots of checkpatch fixes Staging: go7007 v4l fixes Staging: Fix gcc warnings in sxg Staging: add echo cancelation module Staging: add wlan-ng prism2 usb driver Staging: add w35und wifi driver Staging: USB/IP: add host driver Staging: USB/IP: add client driver Staging: USB/IP: add common functions needed Staging: add the go7007 video driver Staging: add me4000 pci data collection driver Staging: add me4000 firmware files Staging: add sxg network driver Staging: add Alacritech slicoss network driver ... Fixed up conflicts due to taint flags changes and MAINTAINERS cleanup in MAINTAINERS, include/linux/kernel.h and kernel/panic.c.
| | * Staging: add TAINT_CRAP for all drivers/staging codeGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need to add a flag for all code that is in the drivers/staging/ directory to prevent all other kernel developers from worrying about issues here, and to notify users that the drivers might not be as good as they are normally used to. Based on code from Andreas Gruenbacher and Jeff Mahoney to provide a TAINT flag for the support level of a kernel module in the Novell enterprise kernel release. This is the kernel portion of this feature, the ability for the flag to be set needs to be done in the build process and will happen in a follow-up patch. Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | taint: fix kernel-docRandy Dunlap2008-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move print_tainted() kernel-doc to avoid the following error: Error(/var/linsrc/mmotm-2008-1002-1617//kernel/panic.c:155): cannot understand prototype: 'struct tnt ' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | Make the taint flags reliableAndi Kleen2008-10-16
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's somewhat unlikely that it happens, but right now a race window between interrupts or machine checks or oopses could corrupt the tainted bitmap because it is modified in a non atomic fashion. Convert the taint variable to an unsigned long and use only atomic bit operations on it. Unfortunately this means the intvec sysctl functions cannot be used on it anymore. It turned out the taint sysctl handler could actually be simplified a bit (since it only increases capabilities) so this patch actually removes code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded include] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotectorIngo Molnar2008-10-15
|\| | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/Makefile include/asm-x86/pda.h
| * Add a WARN() macro; this is WARN_ON() + printk argumentsArjan van de Ven2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a WARN() macro that acts like WARN_ON(), with the added feature that it takes a printk like argument that is printed as part of the warning message. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk arguments] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | stackprotector: remove self-testIngo Molnar2008-07-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | turns out gcc generates such stackprotector-failure sequences in certain circumstances: movq -8(%rbp), %rax # D.16032, xorq %gs:40, %rax #, jne .L17 #, leave ret .L17: call __stack_chk_fail # .size __stack_chk_test_func, .-__stack_chk_test_func .section .init.text,"ax",@progbits .type panic_setup, @function panic_setup: pushq %rbp # note that there's no jump back to the failing context after the call to __stack_chk_fail - i.e. it has a ((noreturn)) attribute. Which is fair enough in the normal case but kills the self-test. (as we cannot reliably return in the self-test) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86: simplify stackprotector self-checkArjan van de Ven2008-07-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up the code by removing no longer needed code; make sure the pda is updated and kept in sync Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | stackprotector: better self-testArjan van de Ven2008-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | check stackprotector functionality by manipulating the canary briefly during bootup. far more robust than trying to overflow the stack. (which is architecture dependent, etc.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | stackprotector: turn not having the right gcc into a #warningArjan van de Ven2008-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the user selects the stack-protector config option, but does not have a gcc that has the right bits enabled (for example because it isn't build with a glibc that supports TLS, as is common for cross-compilers, but also because it may be too old), then the runtime test fails right now. This patch adds a warning message for this scenario. This warning accomplishes two goals 1) the user is informed that the security option he selective isn't available 2) the user is suggested to turn of the CONFIG option that won't work for him, and would make the runtime test fail anyway. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | panic.c: fix whitespace additionsDaniel Walker2008-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | trivial: remove white space addition in stack protector Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | x86: add CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR self-testArjan van de Ven2008-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a simple self-test capability to the stackprotector feature. The test deliberately overflows a stack buffer and then checks if the canary trap function gets called. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | panic: print out stacktrace if DEBUG_BUGVERBOSEIngo Molnar2008-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | if CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE is set then the user most definitely wanted to see as much information about kernel crashes as possible - so give them at least a stack dump. this is particularly useful for stackprotector related panics, where the stacktrace can give us the exact location of the (attempted) attack. Pointed out by pageexec@freemail.hu in the stackprotector breakage threads. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | panic: print more informative messages on stackprotect failureIngo Molnar2008-05-26
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | pointed out by pageexec@freemail.hu: we just simply panic() when there's a stackprotector attack - giving the attacked person no information about what kernel code the attack went against. print out the attacked function. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition)Nur Hussein2008-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kernel is sent to tainted within the warn_on_slowpath() function, and whenever a warning occurs the new taint flag 'W' is set. This is useful to know if a warning occurred before a BUG by preserving the warning as a flag in the taint state. This does not work on architectures where WARN_ON has its own definition. These archs are: 1. s390 2. superh 3. avr32 4. parisc The maintainers of these architectures have been added in the Cc: list in this email to alert them to the situation. The documentation in oops-tracing.txt has been updated to include the new flag. Signed-off-by: Nur Hussein <nurhussein@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ACPI: Taint kernel on ACPI table override (format corrected)Éric Piel2008-02-06
| | | | | | | | When an ACPI table is overridden (for now this can happen only for DSDT) display a big warning and taint the kernel with flag A. Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* debug: add the end-of-trace marker and the module list toArjan van de Ven2008-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unlike oopses, WARN_ON() currently does't print the loaded modules list. This makes it harder to take action on certain bug reports. For example, recently there were a set of WARN_ON()s reported in the mac80211 stack, which were just signalling a driver bug. It takes then anther round trip to the bug reporter (if he responds at all) to find out which driver is at fault. Another issue is that, unlike oopses, WARN_ON() doesn't currently printk the helpful "cut here" line, nor the "end of trace" marker. Now that WARN_ON() is out of line, the size increase due to this is minimal and it's worth adding. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* debug: move WARN_ON() out of lineArjan van de Ven2008-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A quick grep shows that there are currently 1145 instances of WARN_ON in the kernel. Currently, WARN_ON is pretty much entirely inlined, which makes it hard to enhance it without growing the size of the kernel (and getting Andrew unhappy). This patch build on top of Olof's patch that introduces __WARN, and places the slowpath out of line. It also uses Ingo's suggestion to not use __FUNCTION__ but to use kallsyms to do the lookup; this saves a ton of extra space since gcc doesn't need to store the function string twice now: 3936367 833603 624736 5394706 525112 vmlinux.before 3917508 833603 624736 5375847 520767 vmlinux-slowpath 15Kb savings... Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Matt Meckall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* debug: add end-of-oops markerArjan van de Ven2007-12-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Right now it's nearly impossible for parsers that collect kernel crashes from logs or emails (such as www.kerneloops.org) to detect the end-of-oops condition. In addition, it's not currently possible to detect whether or not 2 oopses that look alike are actually the same oops reported twice, or are truly two unique oopses. This patch adds an end-of-oops marker, and makes the end marker include a very simple 64-bit random ID to be able to detect duplicate reports. Normally, this ID is calculated as a late_initcall() (in the hope that at that time there is enough entropy to get a unique enough ID); however for early oopses the oops_exit() function needs to generate the ID on the fly. We do this all at the _end_ of an oops printout, so this does not impact our ability to get the most important portions of a crash out to the console first. [ Sidenote: the already existing oopses-since-bootup counter we print during crashes serves as the differentiator between multiple oopses that trigger during the same bootup. ] Tested on 32-bit and 64-bit x86. Artificially injected very early crashes as well, as expected they result in this constant ID after multiple bootups: ---[ end trace ca143223eefdc828 ]--- ---[ end trace ca143223eefdc828 ]--- because the random pools are still all zero. But it all still works fine and causes no additional problems (which is the main goal of instrumentation code). Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* trivial comment wording/typo fix regarding taint flagsDaniel Roesen2007-10-19
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
* whitespace fixes: panic handlingDaniel Walker2007-10-18
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPSPavel Emelianov2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as tainted. Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the tainted kernel. This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the calltraces. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson -Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Add TAINT_USER and ability to set taint flags from userspaceTheodore Ts'o2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow taint flags to be set from userspace by writing to /proc/sys/kernel/tainted, and add a new taint flag, TAINT_USER, to be used when userspace has potentially done something dangerous that might compromise the kernel. This will allow support personnel to ask further questions about what may have caused the user taint flag to have been set. For example, they might examine the logs of the realtime JVM to see if the Java program has used the really silly, stupid, dangerous, and completely-non-portable direct access to physical memory feature which MUST be implemented according to the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ). Sigh. What were those silly people at Sun thinking? [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] [bunk@stusta.de: cleanup] Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] x86: Clean up x86 NMI sysctlsAndi Kleen2006-09-29
| | | | | | | | | Use prototypes in headers Don't define panic_on_unrecovered_nmi for all architectures Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Add the __stack_chk_fail() functionArjan van de Ven2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | GCC emits a call to a __stack_chk_fail() function when the stack canary is not matching the expected value. Since this is a bad security issue; lets panic the kernel rather than limping along; the kernel really can't be trusted anymore when this happens. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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