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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: 20190819234111.9019-8-keescook@chromium.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Drew Davenport <ddavenport@chromium.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] bug: Move WARN_ON() "cut here" into exception handler
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 01:59:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201909100157.CEE99802C@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190909160539.GA989@tigerII.localdomain>

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 01:05:39AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (08/20/19 09:47), Kees Cook wrote:
> [..]
> > @@ -181,6 +181,15 @@ enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bugaddr, struct pt_regs *regs)
> >  		}
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	/*
> > +	 * BUG() and WARN_ON() families don't print a custom debug message
> > +	 * before triggering the exception handler, so we must add the
> > +	 * "cut here" line now. WARN() issues its own "cut here" before the
> > +	 * extra debugging message it writes before triggering the handler.
> > +	 */
> > +	if ((bug->flags & BUGFLAG_NO_CUT_HERE) == 0)
> > +		printk(KERN_DEFAULT CUT_HERE);
> 
> Shouldn't this be pr_warn() or pr_crit()?

The pr_* helpers here would (potentially) add unwanted prefixes, so
those aren't used. KERN_DEFAULT is used here because that's how it's
always been printed. I didn't want to change that for this refactoring
work. I'm not opposed to it, generally speaking, though. :)

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-10  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-20 16:47 [PATCH v2 7/7] bug: Move WARN_ON() "cut here" into exception handler Kees Cook
2019-08-22 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
2019-08-23 14:26   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-08-24 19:08     ` Kees Cook
2019-08-29  4:55       ` Christophe Leroy
2019-08-29 16:12         ` Kees Cook
2019-08-23 14:56 ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-09 16:05 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-10  8:59   ` Kees Cook [this message]
2019-09-10  9:16     ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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