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authorDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>2006-01-08 01:03:41 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-08 20:13:59 -0800
commit9841d61d75da5e46ed7a978bed4f50c78b1d87fd (patch)
treefae0f4af69456d6c70ac1ea9c91e0cfc6544d5e2
parentf867bac65419a98c9682f4409e087582d29ec5f6 (diff)
downloadlinux-9841d61d75da5e46ed7a978bed4f50c78b1d87fd.tar.bz2
[PATCH] Add tainting for proprietary helper modules
Kernels that have had Windows drivers loaded into them are undebuggable. I've wasted a number of hours chasing bugs filed in Fedora bugzilla only to find out much later that the user had used such 'helpers', and their problems were unreproducable without them loaded. Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 4b06bbad49c2..5d9078d6f0fa 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1715,6 +1715,11 @@ static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
/* Set up license info based on the info section */
set_license(mod, get_modinfo(sechdrs, infoindex, "license"));
+ if (strcmp(mod->name, "ndiswrapper") == 0)
+ add_taint(TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);
+ if (strcmp(mod->name, "driverloader") == 0)
+ add_taint(TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD
/* Set up MODINFO_ATTR fields */
setup_modinfo(mod, sechdrs, infoindex);