"pkill_on_warn" Proposed For Killing Linux Processes That Cause A Kernel Warning

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 1, 2021 8:57 AM EDT
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A new kernel option was proposed today called "pkill_on_warn" that would kill all threads in a process if that process provoked a kernel warning. Currently when a process triggers a kernel warning there is no impact on that process by default. The Linux kernel does have a "panic_on_warn" option to cause a kernel panic when a warning happens, but pkill_on_warn would be less of an overkill and at least keep the system up and running.

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