[PATCH] taint/module: Remove unnecessary taint_flag.module field
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From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Date: 2025-10-22 08:30:31
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Subsystem:
module support, the rest · Maintainers:
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen, Linus Torvalds
The TAINT_RANDSTRUCT and TAINT_FWCTL flags are mistakenly set in the
taint_flags table as per-module flags. While this can be trivially
corrected, the issue can be avoided altogether by removing the
taint_flag.module field.
This is possible because, since commit 7fd8329ba502 ("taint/module: Clean
up global and module taint flags handling") in 2016, the handling of module
taint flags has been fully generic. Specifically, module_flags_taint() can
print all flags, and the required output buffer size is properly defined in
terms of TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT. The actual per-module flags are always those
added to module.taints by calls to add_taint_module().
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
---
The patch is based on linux-next (20251021) because I wanted to avoid
a conflict with "taint: add reminder about updating docs and scripts" [1],
which is currently queued in mm-nonmm-unstable.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251015221626.1126156-1-rdunlap@infradead.org/ (local)
---
include/linux/panic.h | 1 -
kernel/module/main.c | 2 +-
kernel/panic.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/panic.h b/include/linux/panic.h
index 6f972a66c13e..a00bc0937698 100644
--- a/include/linux/panic.h
+++ b/include/linux/panic.h@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ static inline void set_arch_panic_timeout(int timeout, int arch_default_timeout) struct taint_flag { char c_true; /* character printed when tainted */ char c_false; /* character printed when not tainted */ - bool module; /* also show as a per-module taint flag */ const char *desc; /* verbose description of the set taint flag */ };
diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c
index c66b26184936..6f219751df7e 100644
--- a/kernel/module/main.c
+++ b/kernel/module/main.c@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ size_t module_flags_taint(unsigned long taints, char *buf) int i; for (i = 0; i < TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT; i++) { - if (taint_flags[i].module && test_bit(i, &taints)) + if (test_bit(i, &taints)) buf[l++] = taint_flags[i].c_true; }
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 81b7911fb5ca..341c66948dcb 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c@@ -628,17 +628,13 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic); -#define TAINT_FLAG(taint, _c_true, _c_false, _module) \ +#define TAINT_FLAG(taint, _c_true, _c_false) \ [ TAINT_##taint ] = { \ .c_true = _c_true, .c_false = _c_false, \ - .module = _module, \ .desc = #taint, \ } /* - * 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
@@ -646,26 +642,26 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic); * /proc/sys/kernel/tainted. */ const struct taint_flag taint_flags[TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT] = { - TAINT_FLAG(PROPRIETARY_MODULE, 'P', 'G', true), - TAINT_FLAG(FORCED_MODULE, 'F', ' ', true), - TAINT_FLAG(CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, 'S', ' ', false), - TAINT_FLAG(FORCED_RMMOD, 'R', ' ', false), - TAINT_FLAG(MACHINE_CHECK, 'M', ' ', false), - TAINT_FLAG(BAD_PAGE, 'B', ' ', false), - TAINT_FLAG(USER, 'U', ' ', false), - TAINT_FLAG(DIE, 'D', ' ', false), - TAINT_FLAG(OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE, 'A', ' ', false), - TAINT_FLAG(WARN, 'W', ' ', false), - TAINT_FLAG(CRAP, 'C', ' ', true), - TAINT_FLAG(FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, 'I', ' ', false), - TAINT_FLAG(OOT_MODULE, 'O', ' ', true), - TAINT_FLAG(UNSIGNED_MODULE, 'E', ' ', true), - TAINT_FLAG(SOFTLOCKUP, 'L', ' ', false), - TAINT_FLAG(LIVEPATCH, 'K', ' ', true), - TAINT_FLAG(AUX, 'X', ' ', true), - TAINT_FLAG(RANDSTRUCT, 'T', ' ', true), - TAINT_FLAG(TEST, 'N', ' ', true), - TAINT_FLAG(FWCTL, 'J', ' ', true), + TAINT_FLAG(PROPRIETARY_MODULE, 'P', 'G'), + TAINT_FLAG(FORCED_MODULE, 'F', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, 'S', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(FORCED_RMMOD, 'R', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(MACHINE_CHECK, 'M', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(BAD_PAGE, 'B', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(USER, 'U', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(DIE, 'D', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE, 'A', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(WARN, 'W', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(CRAP, 'C', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, 'I', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(OOT_MODULE, 'O', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(UNSIGNED_MODULE, 'E', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(SOFTLOCKUP, 'L', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(LIVEPATCH, 'K', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(AUX, 'X', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(RANDSTRUCT, 'T', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(TEST, 'N', ' '), + TAINT_FLAG(FWCTL, 'J', ' '), }; #undef TAINT_FLAG
base-commit: aaa9c3550b60d6259d6ea8b1175ade8d1242444e -- 2.51.1