linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make WARN_ON/WARN_ON_ONCE no-ops when CONFIG

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Message-ID: <20071215063113.GA26443@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:31:13 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make WARN_ON/WARN_ON_ONCE no-ops when CONFIG_BUG is off

On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:12:00AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> I tend to agree with this position, except when it comes to handling
> filesystems, where panic is often (but not always) the right thing to
> do.

Given the choice between crashing the machine or potentially giving
an attacker remote root access, I definitely prefer the former in
many instances in the network stack.

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