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| author | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2017-11-17 15:30:38 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-11-17 16:10:04 -0800 |
| commit | 4efb442cc12eb66535b7c7ed06005fd7889c1d77 (patch) | |
| tree | c626168bb985cd919dd496229e6cd86ffbfd7818 /kernel/panic.c | |
| parent | e8cfbc245e24887e3c30235f71e9e9405e0cfc39 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-4efb442cc12eb66535b7c7ed06005fd7889c1d77.tar.gz lwn-4efb442cc12eb66535b7c7ed06005fd7889c1d77.zip | |
kernel/panic.c: add TAINT_AUX
This is the gist of a patch which we've been forward-porting in our
kernels for a long time now and it probably would make a good sense to
have such TAINT_AUX flag upstream which can be used by each distro etc,
how they see fit. This way, we won't need to forward-port a distro-only
version indefinitely.
Add an auxiliary taint flag to be used by distros and others. This
obviates the need to forward-port whatever internal solutions people
have in favor of a single flag which they can map arbitrarily to a
definition of their pleasing.
The "X" mnemonic could also mean eXternal, which would be taint from a
distro or something else but not the upstream kernel. We will use it to
mark modules for which we don't provide support. I.e., a really
eXternal module.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170911134533.dp5mtyku5bongx4c@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/panic.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/panic.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index 3242b64b1956..2cfef408fec9 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -324,6 +324,7 @@ const struct taint_flag taint_flags[TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT] = { { 'E', ' ', true }, /* TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE */ { 'L', ' ', false }, /* TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP */ { 'K', ' ', true }, /* TAINT_LIVEPATCH */ + { 'X', ' ', true }, /* TAINT_AUX */ }; /** @@ -345,6 +346,7 @@ const struct taint_flag taint_flags[TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT] = { * 'E' - Unsigned module has been loaded. * 'L' - A soft lockup has previously occurred. * 'K' - Kernel has been live patched. + * 'X' - Auxiliary taint, for distros' use. * * The string is overwritten by the next call to print_tainted(). */ |