Re: BUG and WARN kernel log levels

[Kees Cook]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-08-15 at 12:00 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Mon, 2016-08-15 at 11:53 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > So, I noticed that asm-gemeric/bug.h defines BUG() without a log level:
>> >
>> > #ifndef HAVE_ARCH_BUG
>> > #define BUG() do { \
>> >        printk("BUG: failure at %s:%d/%s()!\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__); \
>> >
>> > Seems like it should have one?
>> >
>> > Also, I think we might want to examine WARN() a bit... it doesn't have
>> > a log level either, but only a fraction of callers set one:
>> >
>> > $ git grep -E 'WARN(_TAINT|)(_RATELIMIT|_ONCE|)\([^\)]' | grep -v KERN_ | wc -l
>> > 2735
>> >
>> > $ git grep -E 'WARN(_TAINT|)(_RATELIMIT|_ONCE|)\([^\)]' | grep KERN_ | wc -l
>> > 77
>> >
>> > If I'm reading checkpatch.pl correctly, it doesn't warn about missing
>> > log levels on WARN calls, but I think it should.
>> >
>> > How do you think is best to clean this up?
>> >
>> > Mainly, I'd like to add a format string to BUG, or introduce a new
>> > BUGish call that takes a format...
>> I once suggested something similar awhile ago.
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/8/261
>
> And here I submitted patches:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/30/176

Ah, I see some of this series landed. I see commits scattered in the
tree, but not as many as you sent, I think. What still remains?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Nexus Security