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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 11:20:34 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce the pkill_on_warn boot parameter

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 04:55:37PM +0300, Alexander Popov wrote:
> The kernel can hit warning and omit calling __warn() that prints the message.
> But pkill_on_warn action should be taken each time.
> 
> As I can understand now, include/asm-generic/bug.h defines three warning
> implementations:
>  1. CONFIG_BUG=y and the arch provides __WARN_FLAGS. In that case pkill_on_warn
> should be checked in report_bug() that you mention.
>  2. CONFIG_BUG=y and the arch doesn't have __WARN_FLAGS. In that case
> pkill_on_warn should be checked in warn_slowpath_fmt().
>  3. CONFIG_BUG is not set. In that case pkill_on_warn should not be considered.
> 
> Please, correct me if needed.

That looks correct to me, yes.

-- 
Kees Cook

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