[4.14,11/16] exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled

Commit Message

Eric Biggers Feb. 2, 2023, 5:44 a.m. UTC

From: Kees Cook <[e-mail]>

commit de92f65719cd672f4b48397540b9f9eff67eca40 upstream.

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

Cc: Jann Horn <[e-mail]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[e-mail]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
Cc: Baolin Wang <[e-mail]>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <[e-mail]>
Cc: Eric Biggers <[e-mail]>
Cc: Huang Ying <[e-mail]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[e-mail]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[e-mail]>
Cc: [e-mail]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[e-mail]>
---
 Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 5 +++--
 kernel/exit.c                   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 7b04c616c5901..b6124a4475fb7 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -519,8 +519,9 @@  scanned for a given scan.
 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.
 
 ==============================================================
 
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 138b110bf83a1..73103e008a627 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -984,7 +984,7 @@  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);
 
 	do_exit(signr);