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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2013-01-21 17:17:39 +1030
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2013-01-21 17:17:57 +1030
commit373d4d099761cb1f637bed488ab3871945882273 (patch)
tree954bef7bc724aee105dd246d5f2b1ea04ed38b20 /kernel/panic.c
parent64748a2c9062da0c32b59c1b368a86fc4613b1e1 (diff)
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taint: add explicit flag to show whether lock dep is still OK.
Fix up all callers as they were before, with make one change: an unsigned module taints the kernel, but doesn't turn off lockdep. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/panic.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/panic.c34
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index e1b2822fff97..7c57cc9eee2c 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -259,26 +259,19 @@ unsigned long get_taint(void)
return tainted_mask;
}
-void add_taint(unsigned flag)
+/**
+ * add_taint: add a taint flag if not already set.
+ * @flag: one of the TAINT_* constants.
+ * @lockdep_ok: whether lock debugging is still OK.
+ *
+ * If something bad has gone wrong, you'll want @lockdebug_ok = false, but for
+ * some notewortht-but-not-corrupting cases, it can be set to true.
+ */
+void add_taint(unsigned flag, enum lockdep_ok lockdep_ok)
{
- /*
- * Can't trust the integrity of the kernel anymore.
- * We don't call directly debug_locks_off() because the issue
- * is not necessarily serious enough to set oops_in_progress to 1
- * Also we want to keep up lockdep for staging/out-of-tree
- * development and post-warning case.
- */
- switch (flag) {
- case TAINT_CRAP:
- case TAINT_OOT_MODULE:
- case TAINT_WARN:
- case TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND:
- break;
-
- default:
- if (__debug_locks_off())
- printk(KERN_WARNING "Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint\n");
- }
+ if (lockdep_ok == LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE && __debug_locks_off())
+ printk(KERN_WARNING
+ "Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint\n");
set_bit(flag, &tainted_mask);
}
@@ -421,7 +414,8 @@ static void warn_slowpath_common(const char *file, int line, void *caller,
print_modules();
dump_stack();
print_oops_end_marker();
- add_taint(taint);
+ /* Just a warning, don't kill lockdep. */
+ add_taint(taint, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
}
void warn_slowpath_fmt(const char *file, int line, const char *fmt, ...)