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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 /include | |
| parent | e8cfbc245e24887e3c30235f71e9e9405e0cfc39 (diff) | |
| download | linux-4efb442cc12eb66535b7c7ed06005fd7889c1d77.tar.bz2 | |
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 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernel.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 4b484ab9e163..ce51455e2adf 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -549,7 +549,8 @@ extern enum system_states { #define TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE 13 #define TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP 14 #define TAINT_LIVEPATCH 15 -#define TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT 16 +#define TAINT_AUX 16 +#define TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT 17 struct taint_flag { char c_true; /* character printed when tainted */ |