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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:47:35 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce the pkill_on_warn boot parameter
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 12:03:36PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 9/29/21 11:58 AM, Alexander Popov wrote:
> > --- a/kernel/panic.c
> > +++ b/kernel/panic.c
> > @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ static int pause_on_oops_flag;
> > static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pause_on_oops_lock);
> > bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
> > int panic_on_warn __read_mostly;
> > +int pkill_on_warn __read_mostly;
> > unsigned long panic_on_taint;
> > bool panic_on_taint_nousertaint = false;
> >
> > @@ -610,6 +611,9 @@ void __warn(const char *file, int line, void *caller, unsigned taint,
> >
> > print_oops_end_marker();
> >
> > + if (pkill_on_warn && system_state >= SYSTEM_RUNNING)
> > + do_group_exit(SIGKILL);
> > +
> > /* Just a warning, don't kill lockdep. */
> > add_taint(taint, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
> > }
>
> Doesn't this tie into the warning *printing* code? That's better than
> nothing, for sure. But, if we're doing this for hardening, I think we
> would want to kill anyone provoking a warning, not just the first one
> that triggered *printing* the warning.
Right, that would be lib/bug.c:report_bug(), for most archs I suppose.
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