> On May 1, 2020, at 5:15 PM, Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sometimes it is desirable to override SLUB's debug facilities > default behavior upon stumbling on a cache or object error > and just stop the execution in order to grab a coredump, at > the error-spotting time, instead of trying to fix the issue > and report in an attempt to keep the system rolling. > > This patch introduces a new debug flag SLAB_PANIC_ON_ERROR, > along with its related SLUB-machinery, in order to extend > current slub_debug facilites and provide the aforementioned > behavior override. Instead of adding those things everywhere. How about adding something like panic_on_taint? Then, you could write specific taint flags you are interested in to that file because slab_bug() will taint it TAINT_BAD_PAGE.