Commit 2449b8ba authored by Ben Hutchings's avatar Ben Hutchings Committed by Rusty Russell
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module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree 



Use of the GPL or a compatible licence doesn't necessarily make the code
any good.  We already consider staging modules to be suspect, and this
should also be true for out-of-tree modules which may receive very
little review.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (patched oops-tracing.txt)
parent 1cd0d6c3

Documentation/oops-tracing.txt

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@@ -263,6 +263,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. 
 12: 'I' if the kernel is working around a severe bug in the platform

     firmware (BIOS or similar).



 13: 'O' if an externally-built ("out-of-tree") module has been loaded.



The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel

debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has

occurred.  Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is

include/linux/kernel.h

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@@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ extern enum system_states { 
#define TAINT_WARN			9

#define TAINT_CRAP			10

#define TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND	11

#define TAINT_OOT_MODULE		12



extern const char hex_asc[];

#define hex_asc_lo(x)	hex_asc[((x) & 0x0f)]

kernel/module.c

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@@ -2487,6 +2487,9 @@ static int check_modinfo(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info) 
		return -ENOEXEC;

	}



	if (!get_modinfo(info, "intree"))

		add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_OOT_MODULE);



	if (get_modinfo(info, "staging")) {

		add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_CRAP);

		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: module is from the staging directory,"
@@ -3255,6 +3258,8 @@ static char *module_flags(struct module *mod, char *buf) 
		buf[bx++] = '(';

		if (mod->taints & (1 << TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE))

			buf[bx++] = 'P';

		else if (mod->taints & (1 << TAINT_OOT_MODULE))

			buf[bx++] = 'O';

		if (mod->taints & (1 << TAINT_FORCED_MODULE))

			buf[bx++] = 'F';

		if (mod->taints & (1 << TAINT_CRAP))

kernel/panic.c

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@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ static const struct tnt tnts[] = { 
	{ TAINT_WARN,			'W', ' ' },

	{ TAINT_CRAP,			'C', ' ' },

	{ TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND,	'I', ' ' },

	{ TAINT_OOT_MODULE,		'O', ' ' },

};



/**
@@ -194,6 +195,7 @@ static const struct tnt tnts[] = { 
 *  'W' - Taint on warning.

 *  'C' - modules from drivers/staging are loaded.

 *  'I' - Working around severe firmware bug.

 *  'O' - Out-of-tree module has been loaded.

 *

 *	The string is overwritten by the next call to print_tainted().

 */

scripts/mod/modpost.c

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@@ -1849,6 +1849,12 @@ static void add_header(struct buffer *b, struct module *mod) 
	buf_printf(b, "};\n");

}



static void add_intree_flag(struct buffer *b, int is_intree)

{

	if (is_intree)

		buf_printf(b, "\nMODULE_INFO(intree, \"Y\");\n");

}



static void add_staging_flag(struct buffer *b, const char *name)

{

	static const char *staging_dir = "drivers/staging";
@@ -2169,6 +2175,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) 
		buf.pos = 0;



		add_header(&buf, mod);

		add_intree_flag(&buf, !external_module);

		add_staging_flag(&buf, mod->name);

		err |= add_versions(&buf, mod);

		add_depends(&buf, mod, modules);

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