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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2018-04-10 16:32:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-04-11 10:28:35 -0700
commitbc4f2f5469ac2a52affadc4c00c1276d76151a39 (patch)
tree24799573464644e6d6878e82861a3524fb5ca992 /Documentation
parent9c4560e5bbd8c839c8986f79ef536aa07bd77ec7 (diff)
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taint: add taint for randstruct
Since the randstruct plugin can intentionally produce extremely unusual kernel structure layouts (even performance pathological ones), some maintainers want to be able to trivially determine if an Oops is coming from a randstruct-built kernel, so as to keep their sanity when debugging. This adds the new flag and initializes taint_mask immediately when built with randstruct. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519084390-43867-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 4a890c7fb6c3..eded671d55eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -991,6 +991,7 @@ ORed together. The letters are seen in "Tainted" line of Oops reports.
16384 (L): A soft lockup has previously occurred on the system.
32768 (K): The kernel has been live patched.
65536 (X): Auxiliary taint, defined and used by for distros.
+131072 (T): The kernel was built with the struct randomization plugin.
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