panic: Introduce warn_limit
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
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index cfa3543..f4403fc 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
int panic_on_warn __read_mostly;
unsigned long panic_on_taint;
bool panic_on_taint_nousertaint = false;
+static unsigned int warn_limit __read_mostly;
int panic_timeout = CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(panic_timeout);
@@ -88,6 +89,13 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_panic_table[] = {
.extra2 = SYSCTL_ONE,
},
#endif
+ {
+ .procname = "warn_limit",
+ .data = &warn_limit,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(warn_limit),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_douintvec,
+ },
{ }
};
@@ -203,8 +211,14 @@ static void panic_print_sys_info(bool console_flush)
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);
}
/**
