Re: [PATCH v8 5/5] mm: kasan: Do not panic if both panic_on_warn and kasan_multishot set

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On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 9:04 PM 'David Gow' via KUnit Development
<kunit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> KASAN errors will currently trigger a panic when panic_on_warn is set.
> This renders kasan_multishot useless, as further KASAN errors won't be
> reported if the kernel has already paniced. By making kasan_multishot
> disable this behaviour for KASAN errors, we can still have the benefits
> of panic_on_warn for non-KASAN warnings, yet be able to use
> kasan_multishot.
>
> This is particularly important when running KASAN tests, which need to
> trigger multiple KASAN errors: previously these would panic the system
> if panic_on_warn was set, now they can run (and will panic the system
> should non-KASAN warnings show up).
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>



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