Re: [RFC PATCH] module: Introduce module unload taint tracking

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 11:00:52AM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:

Please, do not remove records that a module was removed. IMHO, it
might be useful to track all removed module, including the non-tainted
ones.

Then we'd need two features. One modules removed, and another which
limits this to only tainted modules. On kernel-ci systems where I
try to reproduce issues with fstests or blktests I might be unloading
a module 10,000 times, and so for those systems I'd like to disable
the tracking of all modules removed, otherwise we'd end up with
-ENOMEM eventually.

Module removal is always tricky and not much tested.

It is tricky but I have been trying to correct issues along that path
and given that fstests and blktests uses it heavily I want to start
dispelling the false narrative that this is not a common use case.

The tain flags might be just shown as extra information in the output.

Yes!

  Luis