linux-kernel - Re: pkcs7_message: taint, no license

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Message-ID: <31511.1510146086@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:01:26 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        keyrings@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pkcs7_message: taint, no license

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:

> [74785.692410] pkcs7_message: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
> [74785.692414] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

Are you particularly using the pkcs#7 parser as a module?  I wonder if it
makes most sense to make this and the X.509 options 'bool' rather than
'tristate'.

David