This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: Disable unhandled signal log messages by default
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm64-disable-unhandled-signal-log-messages-by-default.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5ee39a71fd89ab7240c5339d04161c44a8e03269 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Weiser <michael.weiser@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 23:13:38 +0100
Subject: arm64: Disable unhandled signal log messages by default
From: Michael Weiser <michael.weiser@xxxxxx>
commit 5ee39a71fd89ab7240c5339d04161c44a8e03269 upstream.
aarch64 unhandled signal kernel messages are very verbose, suggesting
them to be more of a debugging aid:
sigsegv[33]: unhandled level 2 translation fault (11) at 0x00000000, esr
0x92000046, in sigsegv[400000+71000]
CPU: 1 PID: 33 Comm: sigsegv Tainted: G W 4.15.0-rc3+ #3
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
pstate: 60000000 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO)
pc : 0x4003f4
lr : 0x4006bc
sp : 0000fffffe94a060
x29: 0000fffffe94a070 x28: 0000000000000000
x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000
x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 00000000004001b0
x23: 0000000000486ac8 x22: 00000000004001c8
x21: 0000000000000000 x20: 0000000000400be8
x19: 0000000000400b30 x18: 0000000000484728
x17: 000000000865ffc8 x16: 000000000000270f
x15: 00000000000000b0 x14: 0000000000000002
x13: 0000000000000001 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0008000020008008
x9 : 000000000000000f x8 : ffffffffffffffff
x7 : 0004000000000000 x6 : ffffffffffffffff
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000
x3 : 00000000004003e4 x2 : 0000fffffe94a1e8
x1 : 000000000000000a x0 : 0000000000000000
Disable them by default, so they can be enabled using
/proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Weiser <michael.weiser@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ static const char *handler[]= {
"Error"
};
-int show_unhandled_signals = 1;
+int show_unhandled_signals = 0;
/*
* Dump out the contents of some kernel memory nicely...
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from michael.weiser@xxxxxx are
queue-4.9/arm64-disable-unhandled-signal-log-messages-by-default.patch