arm64: Disable unhandled signal log messages by default

michaelweiser · wildea01 · commit 5ee39a71fd89 · 2018-02-19T17:05:26.000Z
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>
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static const char *handler[]= {
 	"Error"
 };
 
-int show_unhandled_signals = 1;
+int show_unhandled_signals = 0;
 
 static void dump_backtrace_entry(unsigned long where)
 {

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ static const char *handler[]= {`
`57`	`57`	`"Error"`
`58`	`58`	`};`
`59`	`59`
`60`		`-int show_unhandled_signals = 1;`
	`60`	`+int show_unhandled_signals = 0;`
`61`	`61`
`62`	`62`	`static void dump_backtrace_entry(unsigned long where)`
`63`	`63`	`{`