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[PATCH v2 1/2] docs: admin-guide: Handle TAINT_FORCED_BIND when parsing /proc/sys/kernel/tainted

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From: Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-27 08:03:34
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Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Revision v2 of 2 in this series.

Revisions (2)
  1. v2 current
  2. v3 [diff vs current]
tainted-kernels.rst contains a small script to check which taint bits
are set in /proc/sys/kernel/tainted. Add one more loop iteration to also
handle the newly added TAINT_FORCED_BIND bit.

Also simplify by starting the loop at 0 and save substracting 1 for each
usage of the loop counter.

Fixes: fcbfaffee51a ("driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers")
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <redacted>
---
Hello,

feel free to squash this into fcbfaffee51a without author attribution if
that is considered a good idea.

Best regards
Uwe

 Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
index abbf5e3dd749..a208811ad525 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ a particular type of taint. It's best to leave that to the aforementioned
 script, but if you need something quick you can use this shell command to check
 which bits are set::
 
-	$ for i in $(seq 20); do echo $(($i-1)) $(($(cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted)>>($i-1)&1));done
+	$ for i in $(seq 0 20); do echo $i $(($(cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted)>>$i&1));done
 
 Table for decoding tainted state
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- 
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