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

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Date:   Wed, 8 Nov 2017 08:44:08 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, keyrings@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pkcs7_message: taint, no license

On 11/08/2017 05:01 AM, David Howells wrote:
> 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'.

Yes, it's built as a loadable module.
'bool' would certainly prevent that.

-- 
~Randy