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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 /include/linux
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 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/signal.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/signal.h b/include/linux/signal.h
index ea91abe740da..0ae338866240 100644
--- a/include/linux/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/signal.h
@@ -237,12 +237,15 @@ extern int group_send_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct
237extern int __group_send_sig_info(int, struct siginfo *, struct task_struct *); 237extern int __group_send_sig_info(int, struct siginfo *, struct task_struct *);
238extern long do_sigpending(void __user *, unsigned long); 238extern long do_sigpending(void __user *, unsigned long);
239extern int sigprocmask(int, sigset_t *, sigset_t *); 239extern int sigprocmask(int, sigset_t *, sigset_t *);
240extern int show_unhandled_signals;
240 241
241struct pt_regs; 242struct pt_regs;
242extern int get_signal_to_deliver(siginfo_t *info, struct k_sigaction *return_ka, struct pt_regs *regs, void *cookie); 243extern int get_signal_to_deliver(siginfo_t *info, struct k_sigaction *return_ka, struct pt_regs *regs, void *cookie);
243 244
244extern struct kmem_cache *sighand_cachep; 245extern struct kmem_cache *sighand_cachep;
245 246
247int unhandled_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig);
248
246/* 249/*
247 * In POSIX a signal is sent either to a specific thread (Linux task) 250 * In POSIX a signal is sent either to a specific thread (Linux task)
248 * or to the process as a whole (Linux thread group). How the signal 251 * or to the process as a whole (Linux thread group). How the signal