Re: [PATCH] kernel: add panic_on_taint

[Rafael Aquini]

On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 07:07:20PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
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> > On May 7, 2020, at 6:15 PM, Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > It's a reasonable and self-contained feature that we have a valid use for. 
> > I honestly fail to see it causing that amount of annoyance as you are 
> > suggesting here.
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> It is not a big trouble yet, but keeping an obsolete patch that not very straightforward to figure out that it will be superseded by the panic_on_taint patch will only cause more confusion the longer it has stayed in linux-next.
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> The thing is that even if you canât get this panic_on_taint (the superior solution) patch accepted for some reasons, someone else could still work on it until it get merged.
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> Thus, I failed to see any possibility we will go back to the inferior solution (mm-slub-add-panic_on_error-to-the-debug-facilities.patch) by all means.
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There are plenty of examples of things being added, changed, and
removed in -next. IOW, living in a transient state. I think it's 
a reasonable compromise to keep it while the other one is beind 
ironed out.

The fact that you prefer one solution to another doesn't
invalidate the one you dislike. 

Cheers,
-- Rafael