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authorChris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>2020-08-21 15:10:35 +0300
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2020-08-22 12:40:38 +0300
commitc31feed8461fb8648075ba9b53d9e527d530972f (patch)
tree9d2deeba379baf108560d110eb344fffed42922f /arch/x86/kernel/msr.c
parent1f35c9c0ce3888405fc813afedaff79de433cf27 (diff)
downloadlinux-c31feed8461fb8648075ba9b53d9e527d530972f.tar.xz
x86/msr: Make source of unrecognised MSR writes unambiguous
In many cases, task_struct.comm isn't enough to distinguish the offender, since for interpreted languages it's likely just going to be "python3" or whatever. Add the pid to make it unambiguous. [ bp: Make the printk string a single line for easier grepping. ] Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6f6fbd0ee6c99bc5e47910db700a6642159db01b.1598011595.git.chris@chrisdown.name
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/msr.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/msr.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c b/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c
index b03001dfc613..c0d409810658 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ static int filter_write(u32 reg)
if (reg == MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS)
return 0;
- pr_err("Write to unrecognized MSR 0x%x by %s\n"
- "Please report to x86@kernel.org\n", reg, current->comm);
+ pr_err("Write to unrecognized MSR 0x%x by %s (pid: %d). Please report to x86@kernel.org.\n",
+ reg, current->comm, current->pid);
return 0;
}