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 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: arm64-disable-unhandled-signal-log-messages-by-default.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 5ee39a71fd89ab7240c5339d04161c44a8e03269 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Weiser michael.weiser@gmx.de Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 23:13:38 +0100 Subject: arm64: Disable unhandled signal log messages by default
From: Michael Weiser michael.weiser@gmx.de
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@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michael Weiser michael.weiser@gmx.de Signed-off-by: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- 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 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static const char *handler[]= { "Error" };
-int show_unhandled_signals = 1; +int show_unhandled_signals = 0;
/* * Dump out the contents of some memory nicely...
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from michael.weiser@gmx.de are
queue-3.18/arm64-disable-unhandled-signal-log-messages-by-default.patch