Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:58:05 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3 |
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On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:40:06 -0700 masouds@google.com (Masoud Asgharifard Sharbiani) wrote:
> > Look: if there's a way in which an unprivileged user can trigger a printk > > we fix it, end of story. I don't know why this even slightly > > controversial. > > > > Fair enough. Here it is:
My favourite words.
> --------------- > 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.show_unhandled_signals sysctl variable to 0 (or by doing > echo 0 > /proc/sys/debug/show_unhandled_signals)
Do we really need the ratelimiting? If the admin turns this on then he's presumably prepared for the consequences.
I guess "yes", as people (even distros) are likely to turn this on and forget about it.
The patch is larger than I expected, ho hum. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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