Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

[Jan Engelhardt]

On May 21 2007 13:04, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
>
>What about the following enhancement: I check with sig_fatal if it would
>kill the process and only then emit a message. So when an application
>takes care itself of handling it nothing is printed.

>+	/* emit some logging for unhandled signals
>+	 */
>+	if (sig_fatal(t, sig))

Not unhandled_signal()?

>+	{

if (sig_fatal(t, sig)) {

>+		printk(KERN_WARNING "Sig %d send to %d owned by %d.%d (%s)\n",

s/send/sent/;

>+		sig, t -> pid, t -> uid, t -> gid, t -> comm);

t->pid, t->uid, t->gid, t->comm);

>+	}
>+
> 	/*
> 	 * fast-pathed signals for kernel-internal things like SIGSTOP
> 	 * or SIGKILL.
>
>of course, this can also be limited to only the interesting signals:
>
>Signed-off by: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>--- kernel/signal.c.org	2007-05-20 22:47:13.000000000 +0200
>+++ kernel/signal.c	2007-05-21 12:59:52.000000000 +0200
>@@ -739,6 +739,28 @@
> 	struct sigqueue * q = NULL;
> 	int ret = 0;
> 
>+	/* emit some logging for nasty signals
>+	 * especially SIGSEGV and friends aught to be looked at when happening
>+	 */
>+	switch(sig) {
>+	case SIGQUIT: 
>+	case SIGILL: 
>+	case SIGTRAP:
>+	case SIGABRT: 
>+	case SIGBUS: 
>+	case SIGFPE:
>+	case SIGSEGV: 
>+	case SIGXCPU: 
>+	case SIGXFSZ:
>+	case SIGSYS: 
>+	case SIGSTKFLT:
>+		if (sig_fatal(t, sig))
>+		{
>+			printk(KERN_WARNING "Sig %d send to %d owned by %d.%d (%s)\n",
>+			sig, t -> pid, t -> uid, t -> gid, t -> comm);
>+		}
>+	}
>+
> 	/*
> 	 * fast-pathed signals for kernel-internal things like SIGSTOP
> 	 * or SIGKILL.
>



	Jan
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