[PATCH] exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Dec 02 2022 - 16:06:34 EST


In preparation for keeping oops_limit logic in sync with warn_limit,
have oops_limit == 0 disable checking the Oops counter.

Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Seth Jenkins <sethjenkins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
I've changed the warn_limit logic to match...
---
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 5 +++--
kernel/exit.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 09f3fb2f8585..a31d8d81ea07 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -671,8 +671,9 @@ oops_limit
==========

Number of kernel oopses after which the kernel should panic when
-``panic_on_oops`` is not set. Setting this to 0 or 1 has the same effect
-as setting ``panic_on_oops=1``.
+``panic_on_oops`` is not set. Setting this to 0 disables checking
+the count. Setting this to 1 has the same effect as setting
+``panic_on_oops=1``. The default value is 10000.


osrelease, ostype & version
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index dc1a32149f94..deffb8e4b1b2 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr)
* To make sure this can't happen, place an upper bound on how often the
* kernel may oops without panic().
*/
- if (atomic_inc_return(&oops_count) >= READ_ONCE(oops_limit))
+ if (atomic_inc_return(&oops_count) >= READ_ONCE(oops_limit) && oops_limit)
panic("Oopsed too often (kernel.oops_limit is %d)", oops_limit);

/*
--
2.34.1