[PATCH V4] notifier/panic: Introduce panic_notifier_filter

[Guilherme G. Piccoli]

On 25/01/2022 08:50, d.hatayama at fujitsu.com wrote:
>> +       while ((func = strsep(&buf, ","))) {
>> +               addr = kallsyms_lookup_name(func);
>> +               if (!addr) {
>> +                       pr_warn("panic_notifier_filter: invalid symbol %s\n", func);
>> +                       continue;
>> +               }
> 
> Could you remove this check?
> 
> panic_notifier_list is exported to kernel modules and this check
> prevents such users from using this feature.
> 
> Thanks.
> HATAYAMA, Daisuke


Hi, thanks for the review. First of all, notice that it's very likely
this patch isn't gonna get merged this way, we are considering a
refactor that included 2 panic notifiers: one a bit earlier (pre_dump),
that includes functions less risky, as watchdog unloaders, kernel offset
dump, etc, and the second panic notifier (post_dump) will keep the
majority of callbacks, and can be conditionally executed on kdump
through the usage of "crash_kexec_post_notifiers".

Anyway, I'm curious with your code review - how can we use this filter
with modules, if the filter setup is invoked as early_param(), before
modules load? In that case, module functions won't have a valid address,
correct? So, in that moment, this lookup fails, we cannot record an
unloaded module address in such list. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

Cheers,


Guilherme