From: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org
commit 9fc9e278a5c0b708eeffaf47d6eb0c82aa74ed78 upstream.
Like oops_limit, add warn_limit for limiting the number of warnings when panic_on_warn is not set.
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: Petr Mladek pmladek@suse.com Cc: tangmeng tangmeng@uniontech.com Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" gpiccoli@igalia.com Cc: Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-5-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com --- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 10 ++++++++++ kernel/panic.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index e1d375df4f286..c8d3dbda3c1e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - threads-max - unprivileged_bpf_disabled - unknown_nmi_panic +- warn_limit - watchdog - watchdog_thresh - version @@ -1114,6 +1115,15 @@ example. If a system hangs up, try pressing the NMI switch.
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+warn_limit: + +Number of kernel warnings after which the kernel should panic when +``panic_on_warn`` is not set. Setting this to 0 disables checking +the warning count. Setting this to 1 has the same effect as setting +``panic_on_warn=1``. The default value is 0. + +============================================================== + watchdog:
This parameter can be used to disable or enable the soft lockup detector diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index 08b8adc55b2bf..d1a5360262f04 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ static int pause_on_oops_flag; static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pause_on_oops_lock); bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers; int panic_on_warn __read_mostly; +static unsigned int warn_limit __read_mostly;
int panic_timeout = CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT; EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(panic_timeout); @@ -50,6 +51,26 @@ ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(panic_notifier_list);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_notifier_list);
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL +static struct ctl_table kern_panic_table[] = { + { + .procname = "warn_limit", + .data = &warn_limit, + .maxlen = sizeof(warn_limit), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_douintvec, + }, + { } +}; + +static __init int kernel_panic_sysctls_init(void) +{ + register_sysctl_init("kernel", kern_panic_table); + return 0; +} +late_initcall(kernel_panic_sysctls_init); +#endif + static long no_blink(int state) { return 0; @@ -127,8 +148,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(nmi_panic);
void check_panic_on_warn(const char *origin) { + static atomic_t warn_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0); + if (panic_on_warn) panic("%s: panic_on_warn set ...\n", origin); + + if (atomic_inc_return(&warn_count) >= READ_ONCE(warn_limit) && warn_limit) + panic("%s: system warned too often (kernel.warn_limit is %d)", + origin, warn_limit); }
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