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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2023-01-24 11:29:59 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-02-01 08:23:20 +0100
commit530cdae5c2b2cc30bd09054edd75abf515564354 (patch)
tree24c14e841dd25216100aa89e330970fe8fcad9e9 /Documentation
parent7cffbcd68f1c1579173e6d4d6fdfd5c99a4f5ba5 (diff)
exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled
commit de92f65719cd672f4b48397540b9f9eff67eca40 upstream. In preparation for keeping oops_limit logic in sync with warn_limit, have oops_limit == 0 disable checking the Oops counter. Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index cd9247b48fc7..470262c08858 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -667,8 +667,9 @@ oops_limit
==========
Number of kernel oopses after which the kernel should panic when
-``panic_on_oops`` is not set. Setting this to 0 or 1 has the same effect
-as setting ``panic_on_oops=1``.
+``panic_on_oops`` is not set. Setting this to 0 disables checking
+the count. Setting this to 1 has the same effect as setting
+``panic_on_oops=1``. The default value is 10000.
osrelease, ostype & version