exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled

In preparation for keeping oops_limit logic in sync with warn_limit,
have oops_limit == 0 disable checking the Oops counter.

Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Cc: Huang Ying <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>

Author: kees

Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst

@@ -671,8 +671,9 @@ 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

kernel/exit.c

@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ 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))
+	if (atomic_inc_return(&oops_count) >= READ_ONCE(oops_limit) && oops_limit)
 		panic("Oopsed too often (kernel.oops_limit is %d)", oops_limit);
 
 	/*