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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2023-02-01 20:42:52 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-02-06 07:52:50 +0100
commit7c1273646f7e0239f7f8812e491c33a6aa329a6b (patch)
tree0118fd2fb2852cc06eebedf0d765f583bc7e4348 /Documentation
parent51538bdde3c29ea3b89d4a505475610c8a05f222 (diff)
panic: Introduce warn_limit
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> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
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@@ -1186,6 +1186,16 @@ entry will default to 2 instead of 0.
2 Unprivileged calls to ``bpf()`` are disabled
= =============================================================
+
+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:
=========