From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:50586 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751514AbeBZQUp (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:20:45 -0500 Subject: Patch "arm64: Remove unimplemented syscall log message" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree To: michael.weiser@gmx.de, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, will.deacon@arm.com Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:19:07 +0100 Message-ID: <15196619476534@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: Remove unimplemented syscall log message to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm64-remove-unimplemented-syscall-log-message.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 1962682d2b2fbe6cfa995a85c53c069fadda473e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Weiser Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 23:13:36 +0100 Subject: arm64: Remove unimplemented syscall log message From: Michael Weiser commit 1962682d2b2fbe6cfa995a85c53c069fadda473e upstream. Stop printing a (ratelimited) kernel message for each instance of an unimplemented syscall being called. Userland making an unimplemented syscall is not necessarily misbehaviour and to be expected with a current userland running on an older kernel. Also, the current message looks scary to users but does not actually indicate a real problem nor help them narrow down the cause. Just rely on sys_ni_syscall() to return -ENOSYS. Cc: Acked-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Michael Weiser Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c @@ -526,14 +526,6 @@ asmlinkage long do_ni_syscall(struct pt_ } #endif - if (show_unhandled_signals_ratelimited()) { - pr_info("%s[%d]: syscall %d\n", current->comm, - task_pid_nr(current), regs->syscallno); - dump_instr("", regs); - if (user_mode(regs)) - __show_regs(regs); - } - return sys_ni_syscall(); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from michael.weiser@gmx.de are queue-4.15/arm64-remove-unimplemented-syscall-log-message.patch queue-4.15/arm64-disable-unhandled-signal-log-messages-by-default.patch