On Thu, 25 Aug 2016, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > There's no reliable way to determine which module tainted the kernel > with TAINT_LIVEPATCH. For example, /sys/module/<klp module>/taint > doesn't report it. Neither does the "mod -t" command in the crash tool. > > Make it crystal clear who the guilty party is by associating > TAINT_LIVEPATCH with any module which sets the "livepatch" modinfo > attribute. The flag will still get set in the kernel like before, but > now it also sets the same flag in mod->taint. > > Note that now the taint flag gets set when the module is loaded rather > than when it's enabled. > > I also renamed find_livepatch_modinfo() to check_modinfo_livepatch() to > better reflect its purpose: it's basically a livepatch-specific > sub-function of check_modinfo(). > > Reported-by: Chunyu Hu <ch...@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbe...@suse.cz> Miroslav
