On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This could be a BUG, but I'd rather not panic the entire kernel. > > It seems unlikely that it will panic without panic_on_oops and that's > an explicit opt-in to taking down the system on kernel logic errors > exactly like this. In grsecurity, it calls the kernel exploit handling > logic (panic if root, otherwise kill all process of that user and ban > them until reboot) but that same logic is also called for BUG via oops > handling so there's only really a distinction with panic_on_oops=1. > > Does it make sense to be less fatal for a fatal assertion that's more > likely to be security-related? Maybe you're worried about having some > false positives for the whitelisting portion, but I don't think those > will lurk around very long with the way this works. I'd like it to dump stack and be fatal to the process involved, but yeah, I guess BUG() would work. Creating an infrastructure for handling security-related Oopses can be done separately from this (and I'd like to see that added, since it's a nice bit of configurable reactivity to possible attacks). -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS & Brillo Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
