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authorSeth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>2014-12-16 11:58:18 -0600
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2014-12-22 15:40:48 +0100
commitc5f4546593e9911800f0926c1090959b58bc5c93 (patch)
tree62867df3a453f6aa07bbb39f26659f0d9d430dd4
parent97bf6af1f928216fd6c5a66e8a57bfa95a659672 (diff)
livepatch: kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH
This adds a new taint flag to indicate when the kernel or a kernel module has been live patched. This will provide a clean indication in bug reports that live patching was used. Additionally, if the crash occurs in a live patched function, the live patch module will appear beside the patched function in the backtrace. Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/oops-tracing.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kernel.h1
-rw-r--r--kernel/panic.c2
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
index beefb9f82902..f3ac05cc23e4 100644
--- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
@@ -270,6 +270,8 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value.
15: 'L' if a soft lockup has previously occurred on the system.
+ 16: 'K' if the kernel has been live patched.
+
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
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 75511efefc64..83ab25660fc9 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -843,6 +843,7 @@ can be ORed together:
8192 - An unsigned module has been loaded in a kernel supporting module
signature.
16384 - A soft lockup has previously occurred on the system.
+32768 - The kernel has been live patched.
==============================================================
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 5449d2f4a1ef..d03e3deee091 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -471,6 +471,7 @@ extern enum system_states {
#define TAINT_OOT_MODULE 12
#define TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE 13
#define TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP 14
+#define TAINT_LIVEPATCH 15
extern const char hex_asc[];
#define hex_asc_lo(x) hex_asc[((x) & 0x0f)]
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 4d8d6f906dec..8136ad76e5fd 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ static const struct tnt tnts[] = {
{ TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 'O', ' ' },
{ TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE, 'E', ' ' },
{ TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP, 'L', ' ' },
+ { TAINT_LIVEPATCH, 'K', ' ' },
};
/**
@@ -246,6 +247,7 @@ static const struct tnt tnts[] = {
* 'O' - Out-of-tree module has been loaded.
* 'E' - Unsigned module has been loaded.
* 'L' - A soft lockup has previously occurred.
+ * 'K' - Kernel has been live patched.
*
* The string is overwritten by the next call to print_tainted().
*/