Re: [PATCH] Documentation: coding-style: don't encourage WARN*()

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Apr 18 2024 - 13:12:15 EST


On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 09:14:30AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Also, it's not true that "Android" sets this option. It might be the case that
> some individual Android OEMs have decided to use it for some reason (they do
> have the ability to customize their kernel command line, after all). It's
> certainly not used by default or even recommended.

Ah yes, you are right. I had misremembered; last I looked Android uses
of CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP=y, which has a similar affect (effectively promoting
warning into bug) for UBSAN checks.

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Kees Cook