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| author | Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> | 2025-10-15 15:16:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-11-12 10:00:15 -0800 |
| commit | ed4bbe7e8fa186b24c61aa22a32885d5de0fe1a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 84e4f8dab2bed3dc629f6682f084a4001dc8dcbb /kernel/panic.c | |
| parent | adc15829fb73e402903b7030729263b6ee4a7232 (diff) | |
taint: add reminder about updating docs and scripts
Sometimes people update taint-related pieces of the kernel without
updating the supporting documentation or scripts. Add a reminder to do
this.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015221626.1126156-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/panic.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/panic.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index 24cc3eec1805..ec59cade1f83 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -638,6 +638,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic); /* * TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD could be a per-module flag but the module * is being removed anyway. + * + * NOTE: if you modify the taint_flags or TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT, + * please also modify tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint and + * Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst, including its + * small shell script that prints the TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT bits of + * /proc/sys/kernel/tainted. */ const struct taint_flag taint_flags[TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT] = { TAINT_FLAG(PROPRIETARY_MODULE, 'P', 'G', true), |