Commit-ID: ea2f8d60603efbd1cb4e193a593945a2fe24d264 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/ea2f8d60603efbd1cb4e193a593945a2fe24d264 Author: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 20:35:24 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- 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" :

