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From: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
To: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, borntraeger@de.ibm.com,
	gor@linux.ibm.com, imbrenda@linux.ibm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	david@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] s390x: Add 3f program exception handler
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 14:14:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200904121422.GG6075@osiris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36e1c11c-c4a2-6ae2-b341-7d582203d031@linux.ibm.com>

On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 01:33:28PM +0200, Janosch Frank wrote:
> >> +	printk_ratelimited(KERN_WARNING
> >> +			   "Secure storage violation in task: %s, pid %d\n",
> >> +			   get_task_comm(buf, current), task_pid_nr(current));
> > 
> > Why get_task_comm() and task_pid_nr() instead of simply current->comm
> > and current->pid?
> 
> Normally if there are functions to get data I assume those should be used.

Could be used, however I don't see why you need that extra complexity
here for both of them.

> > Also: is the dmesg message of any value?
> Yes, it's import for administrators to know that an exception caused
> this segfault and not some memory shenanigans.
> 
> As the exception only occurs if a guest runs in unsupported modes like
> sharing the memory between two secure guests it's a good first
> indication what went wrong.

Yes, fine with me. Just not sure of how help this is when pid
namespaces come into play...

      reply	other threads:[~2020-09-04 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-03 13:14 [PATCH 0/2] s390x: pv: Fixes and improvements Janosch Frank
2020-09-03 13:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] s390x: uv: Add destroy page call Janosch Frank
2020-09-04 10:39   ` Heiko Carstens
2020-09-04 11:38     ` Janosch Frank
2020-09-04 12:10       ` Heiko Carstens
2020-09-07  9:50         ` Janosch Frank
2020-09-03 13:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] s390x: Add 3f program exception handler Janosch Frank
2020-09-03 14:20   ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-09-04 10:35   ` Heiko Carstens
2020-09-04 11:33     ` Janosch Frank
2020-09-04 12:14       ` Heiko Carstens [this message]

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