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Commit 3205c36c authored by Libor Pechacek's avatar Libor Pechacek Committed by Rusty Russell
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module: Issue warnings when tainting kernel 



While most of the locations where a kernel taint bit is set are accompanied
with a warning message, there are two which set their bits silently.  If
the tainting module gets unloaded later on, it is almost impossible to tell
what was the reason for setting the flag.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLibor Pechacek <lpechacek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
parent c75b590d

kernel/module.c

+10 −1
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@@ -2919,8 +2919,12 @@ static int check_modinfo(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info, int flags) 
		return -ENOEXEC;

	}



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

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

		if (!test_taint(TAINT_OOT_MODULE))

			pr_warn("%s: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.\n",

				mod->name);

		add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);

	}



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

		add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_CRAP, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
@@ -3089,6 +3093,8 @@ static int move_module(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info) 


static int check_module_license_and_versions(struct module *mod)

{

	int prev_taint = test_taint(TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);



	/*

	 * ndiswrapper is under GPL by itself, but loads proprietary modules.

	 * Don't use add_taint_module(), as it would prevent ndiswrapper from
@@ -3107,6 +3113,9 @@ static int check_module_license_and_versions(struct module *mod) 
		add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE,

				 LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE);



	if (!prev_taint && test_taint(TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE))

		pr_warn("%s: module license taints kernel.\n", mod->name);



#ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS

	if ((mod->num_syms && !mod->crcs)

	    || (mod->num_gpl_syms && !mod->gpl_crcs)