Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:15:28 -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:
> 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)
Is that still correct? Methinks /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
<Looks sadly at Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt>
<Argh, your patch was reversed. Applied with patch -R.>
> 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; > }
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