This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kasan: respect /proc/sys/kernel/traceoff_on_warning to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kasan-respect-proc-sys-kernel-traceoff_on_warning.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Jun 15 11:38:13 CEST 2017 From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 21:53:57 -0400 Subject: kasan: respect /proc/sys/kernel/traceoff_on_warning From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 4f40c6e5627ea73b4e7c615c59631f38cc880885 ] After much waiting I finally reproduced a KASAN issue, only to find my trace-buffer empty of useful information because it got spooled out :/ Make kasan_report honour the /proc/sys/kernel/traceoff_on_warning interface. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170125164106.3514-1-aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/kasan/report.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/mm/kasan/report.c +++ b/mm/kasan/report.c @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ * */ +#include <linux/ftrace.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/mm.h> #include <linux/printk.h> @@ -298,6 +299,8 @@ void kasan_report(unsigned long addr, si if (likely(!kasan_report_enabled())) return; + disable_trace_on_warning(); + info.access_addr = (void *)addr; info.access_size = size; info.is_write = is_write; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/kasan-respect-proc-sys-kernel-traceoff_on_warning.patch