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-rw-r--r--kernel/panic.c6
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),