Warning about WARN_ON()

Posted Apr 18, 2024 17:16 UTC (Thu) by adobriyan (subscriber, #30858)
Parent article: Warning about WARN_ON()

panic_on_warn is hilarious.

Those protecting against exploits with panic_on_oops should "#define WARN_ON BUG_ON" and spare us from yet another kernel option.

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Warning about WARN_ON()

Posted Apr 18, 2024 22:42 UTC (Thu) by kees (subscriber, #27264) [Link] (1 responses)

Compile-time-only behavioral control options means people using Distro kernels are out of luck. It's important to keep these kinds of things at least as a boot-time flag.

Warning about WARN_ON()

Posted Apr 24, 2024 1:47 UTC (Wed) by jwarnica (subscriber, #27492) [Link]

Or they are in-luck because their primary source of support - volunteer or paid - has made an explicit choice to limit the scope of support, and thus, be better able to credibly provide support for that.