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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 2/4] x86/traps: Print address on #GP
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> On Dec 11, 2019, at 9:06 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 03:31:18PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
>> I have already sent a patch to syzkaller that relaxes their parsing of GPF
>> messages (https://github.com/google/syzkaller/commit/432c7650) such that
>> changes like the one in this patch don't break it.
>> That patch has already made its way into syzbot's syzkaller instances
>> according to <https://syzkaller.appspot.com/upstream>.
>
> Ok, cool.
>
> I still think we should do the oops number marking, though, as it has
> more benefits than just syzkaller scanning for it. The first oops has always
> been of crucial importance so having the number in there:
>
> [ 2.542218] [1] general protection fault while derefing a non-canonical address 0xdfff000000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> ^
>
> would make eyeballing oopses even easier. Basically the same reason why
> you're doing this enhancement. :)
>

Could we spare a few extra bytes to make this more readable? I can never keep track of which number is the oops count, which is the cpu, and which is the error code. How about:

OOPS 1: general protection blah blah blah (CPU 0)

and put in the next couple lines “#GP(0)”.

> So let me know if you don't have time to do it or you don't care about
> it etc, and I'll have a look. Independent of those patches, of course -
> those look good so far.
>
> Thx.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
> https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

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