linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 5/5] mm: kasan: Do not panic if both panic_on_warn and kasan

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Date:   Tue, 9 Jun 2020 12:32:20 -0700
From:   Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
To:     David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>
Cc:     Patricia Alfonso <trishalfonso@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        andreyknvl@...gle.com, shuah <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        KUnit Development <kunit-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 5/5] mm: kasan: Do not panic if both panic_on_warn and
 kasan_multishot set

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 9:04 PM 'David Gow' via KUnit Development
<kunit-dev@...glegroups.com> wrote:
>
> KASAN errors will currently trigger a panic when panic_on_warn is set.
> This renders kasan_multishot useless, as further KASAN errors won't be
> reported if the kernel has already paniced. By making kasan_multishot
> disable this behaviour for KASAN errors, we can still have the benefits
> of panic_on_warn for non-KASAN warnings, yet be able to use
> kasan_multishot.
>
> This is particularly important when running KASAN tests, which need to
> trigger multiple KASAN errors: previously these would panic the system
> if panic_on_warn was set, now they can run (and will panic the system
> should non-KASAN warnings show up).
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>