Re: [PATCH 4/5] don't panic if /sbin/init exits or killed

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 03/18, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 18:54 +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > If the buggy init exits, the kernel panics. I see no point for this. It is very
> > possible that the system is still usable enough, at least to read the logs and
> > prepare the bug report.
> 
> At present, init with SELinux support will exit with an error status if
> it cannot successfully load the initial policy if the system is in
> enforcing mode, with the expectation that the kernel will then panic.
> 
> We might argue about whether that is correct (having it explicitly halt
> makes more sense to me, but I didn't write the init patch), but it has
> been the behavior in Fedora and Debian for quite some time.

OK, thanks. It's a pity ;)

Please ignore this patch then.

Oleg.

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