Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] kref: Implement using refcount_t | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:16:47 +0100 |
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On 15 November 2016 19:06:28 CET, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>I'll want to modify this in the future; I have a config already doing >"Bug on data structure corruption" that makes the warn/bug choice. >It'll need some massaging to fit into the new refcount_t checks, but >it should be okay -- there needs to be a way to complete the >saturation, etc, but still kill the offending process group.
Ideally we'd create a new WARN like construct that continues in kernel space and terminates the process on return to user. That way there would be minimal kernel state corruption.
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