linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 28/29] arm64: Remove unimplemented syscall log message

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Message-Id: <20210608175928.730163589@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue,  8 Jun 2021 20:27:22 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Michael Weiser <michael.weiser@....de>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 28/29] arm64: Remove unimplemented syscall log message

From: Michael Weiser <michael.weiser@....de>

commit 1962682d2b2fbe6cfa995a85c53c069fadda473e upstream.

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.

Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Weiser <michael.weiser@....de>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c |    8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -543,14 +543,6 @@ asmlinkage long do_ni_syscall(struct pt_
 	}
 #endif
 
-	if (show_unhandled_signals_ratelimited()) {
-		pr_info("%s[%d]: syscall %d\n", current->comm,
-			task_pid_nr(current), (int)regs->syscallno);
-		dump_instr("", regs);
-		if (user_mode(regs))
-			__show_regs(regs);
-	}
-
 	return sys_ni_syscall();
 }