Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Introduce the pkill_on_warn parameter

[Casey Schaufler]

On 11/16/2021 10:41 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 12:12:16PM +0300, Alexander Popov wrote:
> > What if the Linux kernel had a LSM module responsible for error handling policy?
> > That would require adding LSM hooks to BUG*(), WARN*(), KERN_EMERG, etc.
> > In such LSM policy we can decide immediately how to react on the kernel error.
> > We can even decide depending on the subsystem and things like that.
> That would solve the "atomicity" issue the WARN tracepoint solution has,
> and it would allow for very flexible userspace policy.
>
> I actually wonder if the existing panic_on_* sites should serve as a
> guide for where to put the hooks. The current sysctls could be replaced
> by the hooks and a simple LSM.

Do you really want to make error handling a "security" issue?
If you add security_bug(), security_warn_on() and the like
you're begging that they be included in SELinux (AppArmor) policy.
BPF, too, come to think of it. Is that what you want?