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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst index 1ebf68d01141..3b00b9223157 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst @@ -1239,6 +1239,13 @@ ORed together. The letters are seen in "Tainted" line of Oops reports. See :doc:`/admin-guide/tainted-kernels` for more information. +Note: + writes to this sysctl interface will fail with ``EINVAL`` if the kernel is + booted with the command line option ``panic_on_taint=<bitmask>,nousertaint`` + and any of the ORed together values being written to ``tainted`` match with + the bitmask declared on panic_on_taint. + See :doc:`/admin-guide/kernel-parameters` for more details on that particular + kernel command line option and its optional ``nousertaint`` switch. threads-max =========== |