> On May 6, 2020, at 6:28 PM, Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Analogously to the introduction of panic_on_warn, this patch > introduces a kernel option named panic_on_taint in order to > provide a simple and generic way to stop execution and catch > a coredump when the kernel gets tainted by any given taint flag. > > This is useful for debugging sessions as it avoids rebuilding > the kernel to explicitly add calls to panic() or BUG() into > code sites that introduce the taint flags of interest. > Another, perhaps less frequent, use for this option would be > as a mean for assuring a security policy (in paranoid mode) > case where no single taint is allowed for the running system. Andrew, you can drop the patch below from -mm now because that one is now obsolete, mm-slub-add-panic_on_error-to-the-debug-facilities.patch
