[PATCH v2 1/3] arm64: Remove unimplemented syscall log message

Michael Weiser michael.weiser at gmx.de
Thu Feb 1 14:13:36 PST 2018


Stop printing a (ratelimited) kernel message for each instance of an
unimplemented syscall being called. Userland making an unimplemented
syscall is not necessarily misbehaviour and to be expected with a
current userland running on an older kernel. Also, the current message
looks scary to users but does not actually indicate a real problem nor
help them narrow down the cause. Just rely on sys_ni_syscall() to return
-ENOSYS.

Signed-off-by: Michael Weiser <michael.weiser at gmx.de>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
index bbb0fde2780e..0ef28b7f6aa7 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -526,14 +526,6 @@ asmlinkage long do_ni_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	}
 #endif
 
-	if (show_unhandled_signals_ratelimited()) {
-		pr_info("%s[%d]: syscall %d\n", current->comm,
-			task_pid_nr(current), regs->syscallno);
-		dump_instr("", regs);
-		if (user_mode(regs))
-			__show_regs(regs);
-	}
-
 	return sys_ni_syscall();
 }
 
-- 
2.16.1




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