linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot? printk?] no WARN_ON() messages printed before "Kernel panic

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Date:   Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:57:48 +0100
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [syzbot? printk?] no WARN_ON() messages printed before "Kernel
 panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ..."

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 3:53 PM Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> On 2019/03/16 23:16, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> >>> Maybe try running with "ignore_loglevel" kernel command line option added?
> >>
> >> Right, that's something I would expect 0-day and syzkaller to do.
> >
> > to double-check: enabling this won't lead to verbose/debug level of logging?
> >
>
> I don't know what "verbose/debug level" means. But enabling this option causes
> KERN_{EMERG,ALERT,CRIT,ERR,WARNING,NOTICE,INFO,DEBUG} be printed equally.
>
>   "ignore loglevel setting (prints all kernel messages to the console)"
>
> static bool suppress_message_printing(int level)
> {
>         return (level >= console_loglevel && !ignore_loglevel);
> }

Then I don't think it's suitable: there will be too much output.