Re: [PATCH] kernel: add panic_on_taint

[Rafael Aquini]

On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 10:50:19PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> 
> 
> > On May 6, 2020, at 6:28 PM, Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Analogously to the introduction of panic_on_warn, this patch
> > introduces a kernel option named panic_on_taint in order to
> > provide a simple and generic way to stop execution and catch
> > a coredump when the kernel gets tainted by any given taint flag.
> > 
> > This is useful for debugging sessions as it avoids rebuilding
> > the kernel to explicitly add calls to panic() or BUG() into
> > code sites that introduce the taint flags of interest.
> > Another, perhaps less frequent, use for this option would be
> > as a mean for assuring a security policy (in paranoid mode)
> > case where no single taint is allowed for the running system.
> 
> Andrew, you can drop the patch below from -mm now because that one is now obsolete,
> 
> mm-slub-add-panic_on_error-to-the-debug-facilities.patch
>
Please, don't drop it yet. I'll send a patch to get rid of the bits,
once this one gets accepted, if it gets accepted.

-- Rafael