2020-08-21 12:13:06

by Chris Down

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Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86: Make source of unrecognised MSR writes unambiguous

In many cases the comm enough isn't enough to distinguish the offender,
since for interpreted languages it's likely just going to be "python3"
or whatever. Add the pid to make it unambiguous.

Signed-off-by: Chris Down <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/msr.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c b/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c
index eaf375245549..812e64ef5ff5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c
@@ -102,8 +102,9 @@ static int filter_write(u32 reg)
if (reg == MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS)
return 0;

- pr_err("Write to unrecognized MSR 0x%x by %s\n"
- "Please report to [email protected]\n", reg, current->comm);
+ pr_err("Write to unrecognized MSR 0x%x by %s (pid: %d)\n"
+ "Please report to [email protected]\n",
+ reg, current->comm, current->pid);

return 0;
}
--
2.28.0