Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:31:13 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Make WARN_ON/WARN_ON_ONCE no-ops when CONFIG_BUG is off |
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:12:00AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > I tend to agree with this position, except when it comes to handling > filesystems, where panic is often (but not always) the right thing to > do.
Given the choice between crashing the machine or potentially giving an attacker remote root access, I definitely prefer the former in many instances in the network stack.
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