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Message-Id: <200610230126.10773.chase.venters@clientec.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:25:47 -0500 From: Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com> To: Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@...oo.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: incorrect taint of ndiswrapper On Monday 23 October 2006 00:40, Giridhar Pemmasani wrote: > It seems that the kernel module loader taints ndiswrapper module as > proprietary, but it is not - it is fully GPL: see > http://directory.fsf.org/sysadmin/hookup/ndiswrapper.html Indeed. 'ndiswrapper' is intentionally tainted by kernel/module.c because it is used to load and run unknown binary / proprietary code in kernel-space. If this unknown binary / proprietary code were to contain a bug (which all code of that complexity tends to), it might write to memory it doesn't own, or coerce a device to do so on its behalf, making a kernel crash dump analysis into a wild goose chase (hence the reason for kernel taint). > Note that when a driver is loaded, ndiswrapper does taint the kernel (to be > more accurate, it should check if the driver being loaded is GPL or not, > but that is not done). Are you saying ndiswrapper voluntarily calls add_taint() whenever it loads an NDIS driver? Are there even any examples of GPL-licensed NDIS drivers? > Thanks, > Giri > Thanks, Chase - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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