[PATCH v2 5/6] panic: Introduce warn_limit

[Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Like oops_limit, add warn_limit for limiting the number of warnings when
panic_on_warn is not set.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: tangmeng <tangmeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst |  9 +++++++++
 kernel/panic.c                              | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 09f3fb2f8585..c385d5319cdf 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -1508,6 +1508,15 @@ entry will default to 2 instead of 0.
 2 Unprivileged calls to ``bpf()`` are disabled
 = =============================================================
 
+
+warn_limit
+==========
+
+Number of kernel warnings after which the kernel should panic when
+``panic_on_warn`` is not set. Setting this to 0 or 1 has the same effect
+as setting ``panic_on_warn=1``.
+
+
 watchdog
 ========
 
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 3afd234767bc..b235fa4a6fc8 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
 int panic_on_warn __read_mostly;
 unsigned long panic_on_taint;
 bool panic_on_taint_nousertaint = false;
+static unsigned int warn_limit __read_mostly = 10000;
 
 int panic_timeout = CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(panic_timeout);
@@ -88,6 +89,13 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_panic_table[] = {
 		.extra2         = SYSCTL_ONE,
 	},
 #endif
+	{
+		.procname       = "warn_limit",
+		.data           = &warn_limit,
+		.maxlen         = sizeof(warn_limit),
+		.mode           = 0644,
+		.proc_handler   = proc_douintvec,
+	},
 	{ }
 };
 
@@ -203,8 +211,13 @@ static void panic_print_sys_info(bool console_flush)
 
 void check_panic_on_warn(const char *reason)
 {
+	static atomic_t warn_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+
 	if (panic_on_warn)
 		panic("%s: panic_on_warn set ...\n", reason);
+
+	if (atomic_inc_return(&warn_count) >= READ_ONCE(warn_limit))
+		panic("Warned too often (warn_limit is %d)", warn_limit);
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.34.1