linux-stable/arch
Masoud Asgharifard Sharbiani abd4f7505b 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>
2007-07-22 11:03:37 -07:00
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alpha some kmalloc/memset ->kzalloc (tree wide) 2007-07-19 10:04:50 -07:00
arm clockevents: fix resume logic 2007-07-21 17:49:15 -07:00
arm26 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
avr32 mm: fault feedback #2 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
blackfin some kmalloc/memset ->kzalloc (tree wide) 2007-07-19 10:04:50 -07:00
cris Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-07-19 14:28:19 -07:00
frv FRV: work around a possible compiler bug 2007-07-19 10:04:50 -07:00
h8300 PTRACE_POKEDATA consolidation 2007-07-17 10:23:03 -07:00
i386 x86: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3 2007-07-22 11:03:37 -07:00
ia64 revert "PIE randomization" 2007-07-21 17:49:14 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6 2007-07-19 14:24:57 -07:00
m68k m68k: exclude more unbuildable drivers 2007-07-20 08:24:49 -07:00
m68knommu m68knommu: reformat show_cpuinfo() 2007-07-20 08:44:20 -07:00
mips [MIPS] User stack pointer randomisation 2007-07-20 18:57:40 +01:00
parisc define new percpu interface for shared data 2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
powerpc Fix ppc64 mismerge 2007-07-22 10:41:27 -07:00
ppc Merge branch 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6 2007-07-19 14:24:57 -07:00
s390 s390: Put allocated ELF notes in read-only data segment 2007-07-19 10:04:47 -07:00
sh clockevents: fix resume logic 2007-07-21 17:49:15 -07:00
sh64 sh64: Flag sh64_get_page() as __init_refok. 2007-07-20 17:46:42 +09:00
sparc [SPARC32]: Make PAGE_SHARED a read-mostly variable. 2007-07-21 19:20:34 -07:00
sparc64 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2007-07-21 20:38:51 -07:00
um fallout from kbuild changes 2007-07-19 18:37:54 -07:00
v850 PTRACE_POKEDATA consolidation 2007-07-17 10:23:03 -07:00
x86_64 x86: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3 2007-07-22 11:03:37 -07:00
xtensa Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-07-19 14:28:19 -07:00