vdso: print fatal signals

Add the print-fatal-signals=1 boot option and the
/proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals runtime switch.

This feature prints some minimal information about userspace segfaults to
the kernel console.  This is useful to find early bootup bugs where
userspace debugging is very hard.

Defaults to off.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Don't add new sysctl numbers]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 182c6a39d5a2d553322450eb13cb61ddee22d32b..ab38322111c4c7e83275b0c163490535a45745b5 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1383,6 +1383,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                        autoconfiguration.
                        Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
 
+       print-fatal-signals=
+                       [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
+                       print-fatal-signals=1: print segfault info to
+                       the kernel console.
+                       default: off.
+
        profile=        [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile
                        Format: [schedule,]<number>
                        Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index f9405609774eadc4115006e8f80f418413d84217..39d122753bac93eb7cfa62d0f2e2e451a4908dd5 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -718,6 +718,37 @@ out_set:
 #define LEGACY_QUEUE(sigptr, sig) \
        (((sig) < SIGRTMIN) && sigismember(&(sigptr)->signal, (sig)))
 
+int print_fatal_signals;
+
+static void print_fatal_signal(struct pt_regs *regs, int signr)
+{
+       printk("%s/%d: potentially unexpected fatal signal %d.\n",
+               current->comm, current->pid, signr);
+
+#ifdef __i386__
+       printk("code at %08lx: ", regs->eip);
+       {
+               int i;
+               for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
+                       unsigned char insn;
+
+                       __get_user(insn, (unsigned char *)(regs->eip + i));
+                       printk("%02x ", insn);
+               }
+       }
+#endif
+       printk("\n");
+       show_regs(regs);
+}
+
+static int __init setup_print_fatal_signals(char *str)
+{
+       get_option (&str, &print_fatal_signals);
+
+       return 1;
+}
+
+__setup("print-fatal-signals=", setup_print_fatal_signals);
 
 static int
 specific_send_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t)
@@ -1855,6 +1886,8 @@ relock:
                 * Anything else is fatal, maybe with a core dump.
                 */
                current->flags |= PF_SIGNALED;
+               if ((signr != SIGKILL) && print_fatal_signals)
+                       print_fatal_signal(regs, signr);
                if (sig_kernel_coredump(signr)) {
                        /*
                         * If it was able to dump core, this kills all

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index ccaebbbd75ae4f0b66119c0a1dce610b232e0115..2cce2286bdcda987a8a95e5830e5830ff1911e0f 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern int proc_nr_files(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
 
 /* External variables not in a header file. */
 extern int C_A_D;
+extern int print_fatal_signals;
 extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory;
 extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio;
 extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
@@ -340,6 +341,14 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = {
                .proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec,
        },
 #endif
+       {
+               .ctl_name       = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+               .procname       = "print-fatal-signals",
+               .data           = &print_fatal_signals,
+               .maxlen         = sizeof(int),
+               .mode           = 0644,
+               .proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec,
+       },
 #ifdef __sparc__
        {
                .ctl_name       = KERN_SPARC_REBOOT,