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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-12-23 12:00:24 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-12-23 12:00:24 -0800
commit51094a24b85e29138b7fa82ef1e1b4fe19c90046 (patch)
treef1ce01b4d655b191a6b96f7caae68976c5e95867 /kernel/exit.c
parentedb23125fd4a79003012bc619d2c604da922865e (diff)
parentcf8016408d880afe9c5dc495af40dc2932874e77 (diff)
Merge tag 'hardening-v6.2-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull kernel hardening fixes from Kees Cook: - Fix CFI failure with KASAN (Sami Tolvanen) - Fix LKDTM + CFI under GCC 7 and 8 (Kristina Martsenko) - Limit CONFIG_ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS to Clang > 15.0.6 (Nathan Chancellor) - Ignore "contents" argument in LoadPin's LSM hook handling - Fix paste-o in /sys/kernel/warn_count API docs - Use READ_ONCE() consistently for oops/warn limit reading * tag 'hardening-v6.2-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: cfi: Fix CFI failure with KASAN exit: Use READ_ONCE() for all oops/warn limit reads security: Restrict CONFIG_ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS to gcc or clang > 15.0.6 lkdtm: cfi: Make PAC test work with GCC 7 and 8 docs: Fix path paste-o for /sys/kernel/warn_count LoadPin: Ignore the "contents" argument of the LSM hooks
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index deffb8e4b1b2..15dc2ec80c46 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -931,6 +931,7 @@ void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr)
* Then do everything else.
*/
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
+ unsigned int limit;
if (unlikely(in_interrupt()))
panic("Aiee, killing interrupt handler!");
@@ -954,8 +955,9 @@ void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr)
* To make sure this can't happen, place an upper bound on how often the
* kernel may oops without panic().
*/
- if (atomic_inc_return(&oops_count) >= READ_ONCE(oops_limit) && oops_limit)
- panic("Oopsed too often (kernel.oops_limit is %d)", oops_limit);
+ limit = READ_ONCE(oops_limit);
+ if (atomic_inc_return(&oops_count) >= limit && limit)
+ panic("Oopsed too often (kernel.oops_limit is %d)", limit);
/*
* We're taking recursive faults here in make_task_dead. Safest is to just