Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2017 18:31:02 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] kernel/panic: Add TAINT_AUX |
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On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 09:19:16AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > If I were an end-user looking at my kernel trace that had an "X" flag, > how would I go look up what it actually means? Is "git grep TAINT_AUX" > going to sufficiently answer that question?
Just like with the other taint letters. I look it up by looking at the comment over print_tainted(). Unless it is P or M - those I know :-)
> How does SUSE use it currently?
We will use it to mark modules for which we don't provide support. I.e., a really eXternal module :-)
Thanks.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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