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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
index 381c2ecd407e3..88678e82e23da 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
@@ -697,39 +697,6 @@ int kern_addr_valid(unsigned long addr)
 	return pfn_valid(pte_pfn(*pte));
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
-#include <linux/sysctl.h>
-
-static ctl_table debug_table2[] = {
-	{
-		.ctl_name	= 99,
-		.procname	= "exception-trace",
-		.data		= &exception_trace,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
-		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec
-	},
-	{}
-}; 
-
-static ctl_table debug_root_table2[] = { 
-	{
-		.ctl_name = CTL_DEBUG,
-		.procname = "debug",
-		.mode = 0555,
-		.child = debug_table2
-	},
-	{}
-}; 
-
-static __init int x8664_sysctl_init(void)
-{ 
-	register_sysctl_table(debug_root_table2);
-	return 0;
-}
-__initcall(x8664_sysctl_init);
-#endif
-
 /* A pseudo VMA to allow ptrace access for the vsyscall page.  This only
    covers the 64bit vsyscall page now. 32bit has a real VMA now and does
    not need special handling anymore. */