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

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:04:41 -0600 Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:

> 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 <masouds@google.com>
> > 
> > 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..)

Yes.  In fact I thought that was in there, but I must have dreamed it.