linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib: Taint kernel in common report

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Message-ID: <20080516145718.GD9666@phobos.i.cabal.ca>
Date:	Fri, 16 May 2008 10:57:18 -0400
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	hskinnemoen@...el.com, nurhussein@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, randy.dunlap@...cle.com,
	arjan@...radead.org, mingo@...e.hu, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	kyle@...isc-linux.org, schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: Taint kernel in common report_bug() WARN path.

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 02:21:27PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> Commit 95b570c9cef3b12356454c7112571b7e406b4b51 introduced a
> TAINT_WARN that was implemented for all architectures using the
> generic warn_on_slowpath(), which excluded any architecture that
> set HAVE_ARCH_WARN_ON.
> 
> As all of the architectures that implement their own WARN_ON()
> all go through the report_bug() path (specifically handling
> BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN), taint the kernel there as well for consistency.
> 
> Tested on avr32 and sh. Also relevant for s390, parisc, and powerpc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
> 

obviously fine by me.

Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
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