From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 543251FBC for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2023 10:16:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 56B72C433EF; Fri, 3 Feb 2023 10:16:35 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1675419396; bh=N+rV6EKhDZsum/KiBap1+KzA3Es3Qr9XZnZ+bEtsFeQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=VYydFemeHJYfyhryNJw8nyPu3TRwZwSZ8NiIogePiyANQLfEYSWbOJ7fw/vwn7BMj ZycOk/LZfuvSL4WZ1jcrMXwiktpS9F7ZMGmlAs7X3iIRagDdQXF57saYsOI/OSM6mO hUmiLM36qscePgGa2wiwNiKcTe9rhUU4RRVYc7DU= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, Jann Horn , Jonathan Corbet , Andrew Morton , Baolin Wang , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , Eric Biggers , Huang Ying , "Eric W. Biederman" , Arnd Bergmann , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook Subject: [PATCH 4.14 54/62] exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 11:12:50 +0100 Message-Id: <20230203101015.275705468@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.1 In-Reply-To: <20230203101012.959398849@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20230203101012.959398849@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.67 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Kees Cook commit de92f65719cd672f4b48397540b9f9eff67eca40 upstream. In preparation for keeping oops_limit logic in sync with warn_limit, have oops_limit == 0 disable checking the Oops counter. Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: Eric Biggers Cc: Huang Ying Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 5 +++-- kernel/exit.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -519,8 +519,9 @@ scanned for a given scan. oops_limit: Number of kernel oopses after which the kernel should panic when -``panic_on_oops`` is not set. Setting this to 0 or 1 has the same effect -as setting ``panic_on_oops=1``. +``panic_on_oops`` is not set. Setting this to 0 disables checking +the count. Setting this to 1 has the same effect as setting +``panic_on_oops=1``. The default value is 10000. ============================================================== --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr * To make sure this can't happen, place an upper bound on how often the * kernel may oops without panic(). */ - if (atomic_inc_return(&oops_count) >= READ_ONCE(oops_limit)) + if (atomic_inc_return(&oops_count) >= READ_ONCE(oops_limit) && oops_limit) panic("Oopsed too often (kernel.oops_limit is %d)", oops_limit); do_exit(signr);