[tip:x86/mm] x86/fault: Make fault messages more succinct
From: tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Apr 21 2019 - 14:52:59 EST
Commit-ID: ea2f8d60603efbd1cb4e193a593945a2fe24d264
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/ea2f8d60603efbd1cb4e193a593945a2fe24d264
Author: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 20:35:24 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 20:48:51 +0200
x86/fault: Make fault messages more succinct
So we are going to be staring at those in the next years, let's make
them more succinct. In particular:
- change "address = " to "address: "
- "-privileged" reads funny. It should be simply "kernel" or "user"
- "from kernel code" reads funny too. "kernel mode" or "user mode" is
more natural.
An actual example says more than 1000 words, of course:
[ 0.248370] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000005b8
[ 0.249120] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
[ 0.249717] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: riel@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190421183524.GC6048@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 74c9204c5751..a0df19b0897d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -630,13 +630,13 @@ show_fault_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, unsigned long ad
}
if (address < PAGE_SIZE && !user_mode(regs))
- pr_alert("BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address = %px\n",
+ pr_alert("BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: %px\n",
(void *)address);
else
- pr_alert("BUG: unable to handle page fault for address = %px\n",
+ pr_alert("BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: %px\n",
(void *)address);
- pr_alert("#PF: %s-privileged %s from %s code\n",
+ pr_alert("#PF: %s %s in %s mode\n",
(error_code & X86_PF_USER) ? "user" : "supervisor",
(error_code & X86_PF_INSTR) ? "instruction fetch" :
(error_code & X86_PF_WRITE) ? "write access" :