On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 09:57:37AM -0400, Rafael Aquini 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. > > Suggested-by: Qian Cai <c...@lca.pw> > Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aqu...@redhat.com>
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