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| author | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2011-10-24 17:12:28 +0400 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2011-11-07 01:24:42 +0400 |
| commit | 2449b8ba0745327c5fa49a8d9acffe03b2eded69 (patch) | |
| tree | 48e11288635dcfc8cdb342f3ba00fa2a2a650aa8 /kernel/module.c | |
| parent | 1cd0d6c3021c8d76641b37203f504634b87fbabc (diff) | |
| download | linux-2449b8ba0745327c5fa49a8d9acffe03b2eded69.tar.xz | |
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: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (patched oops-tracing.txt)
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 3c5509642847..ef8cb70c6996 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -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)) |