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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Guenetr Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>,
	Wang Jinchao <wangjinchao600@gmail.com>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18.y 2/2] panic: restore variable arguments to nmi_panic()
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 10:24:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261111152433.2592922-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261111152433.2592922-1-sashal@kernel.org>

From: Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org>

[ Upstream commit ed9e4c1ff15d5b935f467811541ca0aa6e49c5d0 ]

nmi_panic() used to accept variable arguments until commit ebc41f20d77f
("panic: change nmi_panic from macro to function") flattened it to a final
message string.  vpanic() did not exist back then, so the function had to
format through panic("%s", msg).

Bring the variable arguments back and format with vpanic() directly.
The next patch makes nmi_panic() try the panic_force_cpu= redirect
before claiming panic_cpu.  panic_try_force_cpu() needs to print the
message but it is used also by panic() which accepts variable argument
list.  The string could be formatted only when a CPU gets assigned to
process the redirection.  Otherwise, there might be a race when writing
to the `panic_force_buf`.

No current caller passes a string with format specifiers.  The closest one
is hpwdt_pretimeout(), which builds panic_msg with hex_byte_pack() and has
only two variants, both plain strings.  But the new __printf() annotation
on nmi_panic() would warn with -Wformat-security there because the buffer
is passed directly as the format argument, so switch it to nmi_panic(regs,
"%s", panic_msg).

[pmladek@suse.com: changelog fix]
	Link: https://lore.kernel.org/arJxFybmtD7OBIcL@pathway.suse.cz
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260916182957.7788-5-brads@mainlining.org
Signed-off-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Guenetr Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Jinchao <wangjinchao600@gmail.com>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c |  2 +-
 include/linux/panic.h    |  3 ++-
 kernel/panic.c           | 10 ++++++++--
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
index ba08189937ec6..32e9ac24e0d5f 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static int hpwdt_pretimeout(unsigned int ulReason, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	}
 
 	hex_byte_pack(panic_msg, nmistat);
-	nmi_panic(regs, panic_msg);
+	nmi_panic(regs, "%s", panic_msg);
 
 	return NMI_HANDLED;
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/panic.h b/include/linux/panic.h
index 6f972a66c13ee..2ccea58bea810 100644
--- a/include/linux/panic.h
+++ b/include/linux/panic.h
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ __printf(1, 2)
 void panic(const char *fmt, ...) __noreturn __cold;
 __printf(1, 0)
 void vpanic(const char *fmt, va_list args) __noreturn __cold;
-void nmi_panic(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *msg);
+__printf(2, 3)
+void nmi_panic(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *fmt, ...);
 void check_panic_on_warn(const char *origin);
 extern void oops_enter(void);
 extern void oops_exit(void);
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 7f8725f2154b8..e1d0c16fc5266 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -360,13 +360,19 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_on_other_cpu);
  * nmi_panic_self_stop() which can provide architecture dependent code such
  * as saving register state for crash dump.
  */
-void nmi_panic(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *msg)
+void nmi_panic(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *fmt, ...)
 {
+	va_list args;
+
+	va_start(args, fmt);
+
 	if (panic_try_start())
-		panic("%s", msg);
+		vpanic(fmt, args);
 
 	if (panic_on_other_cpu())
 		nmi_panic_self_stop(regs);
+
+	va_end(args);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(nmi_panic);
 
-- 
2.53.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-11-11 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-07 10:11 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] panic: restore variable arguments to nmi_panic()" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree Sasha Levin
2026-11-11 15:24 ` [PATCH 6.18.y 1/2] watchdog/hpwdt: Refine hpwdt message for UV platform Sasha Levin
2026-11-11 15:24   ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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