Re: [PATCH] Make i386 kernel show the segfaults in kernel dmesg, like x86_64.

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Masoud Asgharifard Sharbiani wrote:
Hello,
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
different kernels. Like x86_64, it can be disabled by setting
debug.exception-trace sysctl variable to 0 (or by doing
echo 0 > /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace)

Same behaviour can be extended to other architectures, if needed.
cheers,
Masoud.

Signed-off-by: Masoud Sharbiani <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/i386/mm/fault.c b/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
index 29d7d61..6aa56db 100644
--- a/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
@@ -283,6 +283,8 @@ static inline int vmalloc_fault(unsigned long address)
 	return 0;
 }
+int exception_trace = 1;
+
 /*
  * This routine handles page faults.  It determines the address,
  * and the problem, and then passes it off to one of the appropriate
@@ -464,7 +466,14 @@ bad_area_nosemaphore:
 		 */
 		if (is_prefetch(regs, address, error_code))
 			return;
-
+		if (exception_trace && unhandled_signal(tsk, SIGSEGV)) {
+			printk(
+		       "%s%s[%d]: segfault at %08lx eip %08lx esp %08lx error %lx\n",
+					tsk->pid > 1 ? KERN_INFO : KERN_EMERG,
+					tsk->comm, tsk->pid, address, regs->eip,
+					regs->esp, error_code);

Shouldn't we use printk_ratelimit() here, to prevent some nasty person from creating some rapidly-segfaulting process that floods the kernel logs? (Same with the x86_64 version if it doesn't already..)

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