From 7b70bd3441437b7bc04fc9d321e17c8ed0e8f958 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Borislav Petkov Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:00:21 +0200 Subject: x86, MCE: Do not taint when handling correctable errors Correctable errors are considered something rather normal on modern hardware these days. Even more importantly, correctable errors mean exactly that - they've been corrected by the hardware - and there's no need to taint the kernel since execution hasn't been compromised so far. Also, drop tainting in the thermal throttling code for a similar reason: crossing a thermal threshold does not mean corruption. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Tony Luck Acked-by: Nagananda Chumbalkar Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Russ Anderson Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303135222-17118-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 1 - arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c | 3 --- 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c index 3385ea26f684..68e230327d65 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c @@ -590,7 +590,6 @@ void machine_check_poll(enum mcp_flags flags, mce_banks_t *b) if (!(flags & MCP_DONTLOG) && !mce_dont_log_ce) { mce_log(&m); atomic_notifier_call_chain(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, 0, &m); - add_taint(TAINT_MACHINE_CHECK); } /* diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c index 6f8c5e9da97f..5846a797b970 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c @@ -187,8 +187,6 @@ static int therm_throt_process(bool new_event, int event, int level) this_cpu, level == CORE_LEVEL ? "Core" : "Package", state->count); - - add_taint(TAINT_MACHINE_CHECK); return 1; } if (old_event) { @@ -393,7 +391,6 @@ static void unexpected_thermal_interrupt(void) { printk(KERN_ERR "CPU%d: Unexpected LVT thermal interrupt!\n", smp_processor_id()); - add_taint(TAINT_MACHINE_CHECK); } static void (*smp_thermal_vector)(void) = unexpected_thermal_interrupt; -- cgit v1.2.3