From abd4f7505bafdd6c5319fe3cb5caf9af6104e17a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masoud Asgharifard Sharbiani Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:12:28 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [ 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 --- include/linux/signal.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/signal.h') diff --git a/include/linux/signal.h b/include/linux/signal.h index ea91abe740d..0ae33886624 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 extern int __group_send_sig_info(int, struct siginfo *, struct task_struct *); extern long do_sigpending(void __user *, unsigned long); extern int sigprocmask(int, sigset_t *, sigset_t *); +extern int show_unhandled_signals; struct pt_regs; extern int get_signal_to_deliver(siginfo_t *info, struct k_sigaction *return_ka, struct pt_regs *regs, void *cookie); extern struct kmem_cache *sighand_cachep; +int unhandled_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig); + /* * In POSIX a signal is sent either to a specific thread (Linux task) * or to the process as a whole (Linux thread group). How the signal -- cgit v1.2.3