Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] kref: Implement using refcount_t

[Peter Zijlstra]

On 15 November 2016 19:06:28 CET, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I'll want to modify this in the future; I have a config already doing
>"Bug on data structure corruption" that makes the warn/bug choice.
>It'll need some massaging to fit into the new refcount_t checks, but
>it should be okay -- there needs to be a way to complete the
>saturation, etc, but still kill the offending process group.

Ideally we'd create a new WARN like construct that continues in kernel space and terminates the process on return to user. That way there would be minimal kernel state corruption.