panic: Add vpanic()

vpanic() is useful for implementing runtime verification reactors. Add it.

Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index b0b9a8bf4560..6a1823c383d0 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -309,13 +309,13 @@ static void panic_other_cpus_shutdown(bool crash_kexec)
 /**
  * panic - halt the system
  * @fmt: The text string to print
+ * @args: Arguments for the format string
  *
  * Display a message, then perform cleanups. This function never returns.
  */
-void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
+void vpanic(const char *fmt, va_list args)
 {
 	static char buf[1024];
-	va_list args;
 	long i, i_next = 0, len;
 	int state = 0;
 	int old_cpu, this_cpu;
@@ -366,9 +366,7 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
 
 	console_verbose();
 	bust_spinlocks(1);
-	va_start(args, fmt);
 	len = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, args);
-	va_end(args);
 
 	if (len && buf[len - 1] == '\n')
 		buf[len - 1] = '\0';
@@ -505,7 +503,17 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
 		mdelay(PANIC_TIMER_STEP);
 	}
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vpanic);
 
+/* Identical to vpanic(), except it takes variadic arguments instead of va_list */
+void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	va_list args;
+
+	va_start(args, fmt);
+	vpanic(fmt, args);
+	va_end(args);
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic);
 
 #define TAINT_FLAG(taint, _c_true, _c_false, _module)			\