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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2022-12-02 23:59:11 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-01-24 09:24:41 +0300
commite0738725bbf64b4c24ea8da4bbc70904e5d3f5f8 (patch)
treeeb07eca2830373f4eea25343649ffd2555ef6802
parent46cacd7913c86f84b784dc2e0151bfaefde315d7 (diff)
downloadlinux-e0738725bbf64b4c24ea8da4bbc70904e5d3f5f8.tar.xz
exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled
commit de92f65719cd672f4b48397540b9f9eff67eca40 upstream. In preparation for keeping oops_limit logic in sync with warn_limit, have oops_limit == 0 disable checking the Oops counter. Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst5
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 6075fa604fc9..0d9b66f9b0f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -671,8 +671,9 @@ oops_limit
==========
Number of kernel oopses after which the kernel should panic when
-``panic_on_oops`` is not set. Setting this to 0 or 1 has the same effect
-as setting ``panic_on_oops=1``.
+``panic_on_oops`` is not set. Setting this to 0 disables checking
+the count. Setting this to 1 has the same effect as setting
+``panic_on_oops=1``. The default value is 10000.
osrelease, ostype & version
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index dc1a32149f94..deffb8e4b1b2 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr)
* To make sure this can't happen, place an upper bound on how often the
* kernel may oops without panic().
*/
- if (atomic_inc_return(&oops_count) >= READ_ONCE(oops_limit))
+ if (atomic_inc_return(&oops_count) >= READ_ONCE(oops_limit) && oops_limit)
panic("Oopsed too often (kernel.oops_limit is %d)", oops_limit);
/*