Re: [PATCH] Introduce the pkill_on_warn boot parameter

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Oct 02 2021 - 14:22:14 EST


On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 09:58:23PM +0300, Alexander Popov wrote:

> --- a/kernel/panic.c
> +++ b/kernel/panic.c
> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ static int pause_on_oops_flag;
> static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pause_on_oops_lock);
> bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
> int panic_on_warn __read_mostly;
> +int pkill_on_warn __read_mostly;
> unsigned long panic_on_taint;
> bool panic_on_taint_nousertaint = false;
>
> @@ -610,6 +611,9 @@ void __warn(const char *file, int line, void *caller, unsigned taint,
>
> print_oops_end_marker();
>
> + if (pkill_on_warn && system_state >= SYSTEM_RUNNING)
> + do_group_exit(SIGKILL);
> +

Wait a sec... do_group_exit() is very much not locking-neutral.
Aren't you introducing a bunch of potential deadlocks by adding
that?