[PATCH 5.4 00/17] Backport oops_limit to 5.4

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Wed Feb 01 2023 - 23:44:01 EST


This series backports the patchset
"exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops"
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20221117233838.give.484-kees@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u)
to 5.4, as recommended at
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/01/exploiting-null-dereferences-in-linux.html
This follows the backports to 5.10 and 5.15 which already released.

This required backporting various prerequisite patches.

I've tested that oops_limit and warn_limit work correctly on x86_64.

David Gow (1):
mm: kasan: do not panic if both panic_on_warn and kasan_multishot set

Eric W. Biederman (2):
exit: Add and use make_task_dead.
objtool: Add a missing comma to avoid string concatenation

Jann Horn (1):
exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops

Kees Cook (7):
exit: Expose "oops_count" to sysfs
exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled
panic: Consolidate open-coded panic_on_warn checks
panic: Introduce warn_limit
panic: Expose "warn_count" to sysfs
docs: Fix path paste-o for /sys/kernel/warn_count
exit: Use READ_ONCE() for all oops/warn limit reads

Nathan Chancellor (3):
hexagon: Fix function name in die()
h8300: Fix build errors from do_exit() to make_task_dead() transition
csky: Fix function name in csky_alignment() and die()

Randy Dunlap (1):
ia64: make IA64_MCA_RECOVERY bool instead of tristate

Tiezhu Yang (1):
panic: unset panic_on_warn inside panic()

Xiaoming Ni (1):
sysctl: add a new register_sysctl_init() interface

.../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-oops_count | 6 ++
.../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-warn_count | 6 ++
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 19 +++++
arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c | 6 +-
arch/alpha/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
arch/arm/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
arch/csky/abiv1/alignment.c | 2 +-
arch/csky/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
arch/h8300/kernel/traps.c | 3 +-
arch/h8300/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
arch/hexagon/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
arch/ia64/Kconfig | 2 +-
arch/ia64/kernel/mca_drv.c | 2 +-
arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
arch/ia64/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
arch/m68k/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
arch/m68k/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
arch/microblaze/kernel/exceptions.c | 4 +-
arch/mips/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
arch/nds32/kernel/fpu.c | 2 +-
arch/nds32/kernel/traps.c | 8 +-
arch/nios2/kernel/traps.c | 4 +-
arch/openrisc/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
arch/riscv/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
arch/s390/kernel/dumpstack.c | 2 +-
arch/s390/kernel/nmi.c | 2 +-
arch/sh/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
arch/sparc/kernel/traps_32.c | 4 +-
arch/sparc/kernel/traps_64.c | 4 +-
arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 6 +-
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 6 +-
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 4 +-
arch/xtensa/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 33 ++++++++
include/linux/kernel.h | 1 +
include/linux/sched/task.h | 1 +
include/linux/sysctl.h | 3 +
kernel/exit.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++
kernel/panic.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++---
kernel/sched/core.c | 3 +-
mm/kasan/report.c | 4 +-
tools/objtool/check.c | 3 +-
48 files changed, 260 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-oops_count
create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-warn_count

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