Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86/jump-label: Show where and what was wrong onerrors

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 19:37 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 01:33:06PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Right, and this code keeps the same logic as it was before. If it was
> > disabled by CONFIG_EXPERT, it stays disabled, but at least you get to
> > see a warning that your kernel may be corrupt now :-)
> 
> Don't we really want to panic instead of running a corrupt kernel? IOW,
> to change the logic to panic unconditionally because the image in memory
> has been violated and not in a good way, at that :-)

Well, there's lots of places that use BUG() for a corrupt kernel. If you
are stupid enough to disable it, you get what you asked for.

-- Steve


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