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author | Masoud Asgharifard Sharbiani <masouds@google.com> | 2007-07-22 11:12:28 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-22 20:03:37 +0200 |
commit | abd4f7505bafdd6c5319fe3cb5caf9af6104e17a (patch) | |
tree | a543fce720331dbf6194a2c0471f36b7727b9736 /kernel/sysctl.c | |
parent | Fix ppc64 mismerge (diff) | |
download | linux-abd4f7505bafdd6c5319fe3cb5caf9af6104e17a.tar.xz linux-abd4f7505bafdd6c5319fe3cb5caf9af6104e17a.zip |
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 '')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 222299844ad1..ddebf3f2affe 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1203,6 +1203,16 @@ static ctl_table fs_table[] = { }; static ctl_table debug_table[] = { +#ifdef CONFIG_X86 + { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = "exception-trace", + .data = &show_unhandled_signals, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec + }, +#endif { .ctl_name = 0 } }; |