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From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 20:36:16 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] arch/x86: get rid of KERN_CONT in show_fault_oops()
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@gmail.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
>
> KERN_CONT leads to split lines in kernel output
> and complicates useful changes to printk like
> printing context before each line.
>
> Only acceptable use of continuations is basically
> boot-time testing.
>
> Get rid of it.
>
> Also tidy up code around as asked by reviewers.
>

FWIW,
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>

> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
>
> ---
>
> Changes since v1:
>  - use pr_alert() instead of printk(KERN_ALERT)
>
> Changes since v2:
>  - drop unnecessary parenthesis
>  - remove once used nx_warning and smep_warning
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 21 +++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> index 9a84a0d08727..a73575cacfd9 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> @@ -641,11 +641,6 @@ static int is_f00f_bug(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address)
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> -static const char nx_warning[] = KERN_CRIT
> -"kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: %d)\n";
> -static const char smep_warning[] = KERN_CRIT
> -"unable to execute userspace code (SMEP?) (uid: %d)\n";
> -
>  static void
>  show_fault_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
>                 unsigned long address)
> @@ -664,20 +659,18 @@ show_fault_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
>                 pte = lookup_address_in_pgd(pgd, address, &level);
>
>                 if (pte && pte_present(*pte) && !pte_exec(*pte))
> -                       printk(nx_warning, from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()));
> +                       pr_crit("kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: %d)\n",
> +                               from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()));
>                 if (pte && pte_present(*pte) && pte_exec(*pte) &&
>                                 (pgd_flags(*pgd) & _PAGE_USER) &&
>                                 (__read_cr4() & X86_CR4_SMEP))
> -                       printk(smep_warning, from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()));
> +                       pr_crit("unable to execute userspace code (SMEP?) (uid: %d)\n",
> +                               from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()));
>         }
>
> -       printk(KERN_ALERT "BUG: unable to handle kernel ");
> -       if (address < PAGE_SIZE)
> -               printk(KERN_CONT "NULL pointer dereference");
> -       else
> -               printk(KERN_CONT "paging request");
> -
> -       printk(KERN_CONT " at %px\n", (void *) address);
> +       pr_alert("BUG: unable to handle kernel %s at %px\n",
> +               address < PAGE_SIZE ? "NULL pointer dereference" :
> +               "paging request", (void *) address);
>
>         dump_pagetable(address);
>  }
> --
> 2.18.0.rc2.346.g013aa6912e-goog
>


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko