Re: [PATCH] Make WARN_ON/WARN_ON_ONCE no-ops when CONFIG_BUG is off

[Herbert Xu]

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.

Cheers,
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