Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2023 10:01:55 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kexec: Fix reboot race during device_shutdown() |
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On Sat, 7 Oct 2023 21:30:42 -0400 Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> wrote:
> Just checking how we want to proceed, is the consensus that we should > prevent kernel crashes without relying on userspace stopping all > processes? Should we fix regular reboot syscall as well and not just > kexec reboot?
If you can show that we can trigger the crash on normal reboot, then I don't see why not. That is, if you have a program that does the reboot (without the SIGSTOP/SIGKILL calls) and triggers this crash, I think that's a legitimate reason to fix it on normal reboot too.
-- Steve
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