Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] module: pull out add_taint_module() to be public

On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 12:14:17PM +0100, Bradley Morgan wrote:

On 31 August 2026 12:07:50 BST, Greg Kroah-Hartman
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 12:51:46PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

quoted

Other kernel code might want to call add_taint_module() so pull it out
and make it global.  If modules are not enabled, this defaults to a call
to add_taint(), so all is fine.

Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 include/linux/module.h | 10 ++++++++++
 kernel/module/main.c   | 16 +++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 96cc98568eea..0636e0f2728c 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include <linux/srcu.h>
 #include <linux/static_call_types.h>
 #include <linux/dynamic_debug.h>
+#include <linux/panic.h>
 
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <asm/module.h>

@@ -770,6 +771,9 @@ static inline bool is_livepatch_module(struct module

*mod)

quoted

 
 void module_for_each_mod(int(*func)(struct module *mod, void *data),

void *data);

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+void add_taint_module(struct module *mod, unsigned flag,
+		      enum lockdep_ok lockdep_ok);
+
 #else /* !CONFIG_MODULES... */
 
 static inline struct module *__module_address(unsigned long addr)

@@ -877,6 +881,12 @@ static inline bool module_is_coming(struct module

*mod)

quoted

 static inline void module_for_each_mod(int(*func)(struct module *mod,

void *data), void *data)

quoted

 {
 }
+
+static inline void add_taint_module(struct module *mod, unsigned flag,
+				    enum lockdep_ok, lockdep_ok)

And this line is wrong, ugh.  I gotta go get sashiko running locally...

Cough cough, Claude code speaking 

Nope, no claude running here at all, sorry to burst your bubble.  If I
had, it would have caught this :)

greg k-h