From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/tlb: Fix use_mm() vs TLB invalidate
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:29:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202002211627.33D858AA@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wjL-4=YfvQb_pLhK5oH1QL2j-JCt-Z+S-r86-H__Vow0w@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 03:57:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 3:10 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> > Why not just fail after the WARN -- I wrote the patch for the (very few)
> > callers to handle the errors, clean up, and carry on.
>
> Can it actually fail? Or is this all just "let's add new error
> conditions that make the code harder to read because they make no
> actual sense"?
I was just trying to see if there was a reasonable "do not continue and
do stuff we just tested for". If this should just be WARN_ON_ONCE() and
continue anyway, so be it. My general guideline is to avoid continuing a
known-bad path.
--
Kees Cook
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-22 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-21 11:11 [PATCH] mm/tlb: Fix use_mm() vs TLB invalidate Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 19:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-02-21 19:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-02-21 19:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-02-21 23:10 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-21 23:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-02-22 0:29 ` Kees Cook [this message]
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