Re: kernel panic: audit: backlog limit exceeded

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Fri Feb 28 2020 - 05:03:35 EST


On 2020/02/28 9:14, Paul Moore wrote:
> We could consider adding a fuzz-friendly build time config which would
> disable the panic failsafe, but it probably isn't worth it at the
> moment considering the syzbot's pid namespace limitations.
>

I think adding a fuzz-friendly build time config does worth. For example,
we have locations where printk() emits "BUG:" or "WARNING:" and fuzzer
misunderstands that a crash occurred. PID namespace is irrelevant.
I proposed one at
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191216095955.9886-1-penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx .
I appreciate your response.