What to do in response to a kernel warning [LWN.net]

What to do in response to a kernel warning

Posted Nov 19, 2021 4:06 UTC (Fri) by a13xp0p0v (guest, #118926)
In reply to: What to do in response to a kernel warning by xecycle
Parent article: What to do in response to a kernel warning

No, the output of WARN_ON() in the kernel log looks like that:

```
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 6739 at net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c:34
...
CPU: 1 PID: 6739 Comm: racer Tainted: G W 5.10.11-200.fc33.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.13.0-2.fc32 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:virtio_transport_send_pkt_info+0x14d/0x180 [vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common]
...
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000d07e10 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888103416ac0 RCX: ffff88811e845b80
RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: ffffc90000d07e58 RDI: ffff888103416ac0
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00000000052008af R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000126 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000008
R13: ffffc90000d07e58 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888103416ac0
FS: 00007f2f123d5640(0000) GS:ffff88817bd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f81ffc2a000 CR3: 000000011db96004 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
Call Trace:
virtio_transport_notify_buffer_size+0x60/0x70 [vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common]
vsock_update_buffer_size+0x5f/0x70 [vsock]
vsock_stream_setsockopt+0x128/0x270 [vsock]
...
```

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