Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:31:13 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make WARN_ON/WARN_ON_ONCE no-ops when CONFIG_BUG is off
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:12:00AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> I tend to agree with this position, except when it comes to handling
> filesystems, where panic is often (but not always) the right thing to
> do.

Given the choice between crashing the machine or potentially giving
an attacker remote root access, I definitely prefer the former in
many instances in the network stack.

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