linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] bug: Move WARN_ON() "cut here" into exception handler

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Date:   Sat, 24 Aug 2019 12:08:00 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        20190819234111.9019-8-keescook@...omium.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Drew Davenport <ddavenport@...omium.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] bug: Move WARN_ON() "cut here" into exception
 handler

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 04:26:59PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 23/08/2019 à 00:56, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> > On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 09:47:55 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Reply-To: 20190819234111.9019-8-keescook@...omium.org
> > 
> > Really?
> 
> That seems correct, that's the "[PATCH 7/7] bug: Move WARN_ON() "cut here"
> into exception handler" from the series at
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/19/1155
> 
> 
> > 
> > > Subject: [PATCH v2 7/7] bug: Move WARN_ON() "cut here" into exception handler
> > 
> > It's strange to receive a standalone [7/7] patch.
> 
> Iaw the Reply_To, I understand it as an update of the 7th patch of the
> series.

Was trying to avoid the churn of resending the identical 1-6 patches
(which are all just refactoring to make 7/7 not a mess).

I can resend the whole series, if that's preferred.

> > > Reported-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
> > > Fixes: Fixes: 6b15f678fb7d ("include/asm-generic/bug.h: fix "cut here" for WARN_ON for __WARN_TAINT architectures")
> > 
> > I'm seeing double.

Tracking down all these combinations has been tricky, which is why I did
the patch 1-6 refactoring: it makes the call hierarchy much easier to
examine (IMO).

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook