Re: [PATCH v1] x86: Pin cr4 FSGSBASE

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue May 26 2020 - 17:16:05 EST


On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 09:15:04AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 08:56:18AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > What about those systems that panic-on-warn?
>
> This is (modulo the general discussion about whether it's the right
> way to check) the correct use for WARN*(). It's an undesirable system
> state; people choosing panic-on-warn want this:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#bug-and-bug-on

Ok, tha's good to know, thanks for that.

greg k-h