From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce the pkill_on_warn boot parameter
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 11:36:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202109301132.E29DB764E8@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de96ffec-bbd8-2724-9285-0867cd9a08a0@linux.com>
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 09:27:43PM +0300, Alexander Popov wrote:
> On 30.09.2021 02:31, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 22:01:33 +0300 Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 29.09.2021 21:58, Alexander Popov wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> If you are fine with this approach, I will prepare a patch adding the
> >> pkill_on_warn sysctl.
> >
> > Why do we need a boot parameter? Isn't a sysctl all we need for this
> > feature?
>
> I would say we need both sysctl and boot parameter for pkill_on_warn.
> That would be consistent with panic_on_warn, ftrace_dump_on_oops and
> oops/panic_on_oops.
If you want to change it at runtime, just make a sysctl: it will
be available as a bootparam since v5.8. See commit 3db978d480e2
("kernel/sysctl: support setting sysctl parameters from kernel command
line")
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-30 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-29 18:58 [PATCH] Introduce the pkill_on_warn boot parameter Alexander Popov
2021-09-29 19:01 ` Alexander Popov
2021-09-29 19:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-30 9:15 ` Petr Mladek
2021-09-30 15:05 ` Alexander Popov
2021-10-01 12:23 ` Petr Mladek
2021-09-30 16:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-01 12:09 ` Petr Mladek
2021-09-30 18:28 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-01 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-10-02 11:41 ` Alexander Popov
2021-10-02 12:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-02 16:33 ` Alexander Popov
2021-10-02 16:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-10-02 21:05 ` Alexander Popov
2021-10-05 19:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-10-06 14:56 ` Alexander Popov
2021-10-22 17:30 ` Alexander Popov
2022-07-27 16:17 ` Alexey Khoroshilov
2022-07-27 16:30 ` Jann Horn
2022-07-27 16:43 ` Alexey Khoroshilov
2022-07-27 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-07-27 17:47 ` Alexey Khoroshilov
2021-09-29 23:31 ` Andrew Morton
2021-09-30 18:27 ` Alexander Popov
2021-09-30 18:36 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2021-09-29 19:03 ` Dave Hansen
2021-09-29 19:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-29 20:06 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-30 13:55 ` Alexander Popov
2021-09-30 18:20 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-02 18:04 ` Al Viro
2021-10-02 18:31 ` Steven Rostedt
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