[ Request for Ack ] From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" If a module is loaded that is tainted with anything but OOT or CRAP, then it will not create the tracepoint infrastructure for the module. The user needs to be warned when this happens instead of exiting silently. Fixes: 97e1c18e8d17 "tracing: Kernel Tracepoints" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/tracepoint.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c index 63630ae..a65af20 100644 --- a/kernel/tracepoint.c +++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c @@ -649,8 +649,12 @@ static int tracepoint_module_coming(struct module *mod) * module headers (for forced load), to make sure we don't cause a crash. * Staging and out-of-tree GPL modules are fine. */ - if (trace_module_has_bad_taint(mod)) + if (trace_module_has_bad_taint(mod)) { + pr_err("Module '%s' is tainted, disabling tracepoints\n", + mod->name); return 0; + } + mutex_lock(&tracepoints_mutex); tp_mod = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tp_module), GFP_KERNEL); if (!tp_mod) { -- 1.8.5.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/