linux-kernel - Re: Taint addresses

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Date:   Thu, 26 May 2022 09:41:06 -0700
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Taint addresses

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 02:11:12PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> I guess something like this:
> 
> ...
> [    2.591532] x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
> [    2.592678] CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G S       C        5.18.0+ #7
> [    2.593079] Last taint addresses:
> [    2.593079]  S:start_kernel+0x614/0x634
> [    2.593079]  C:kernel_init+0x70/0x140

Maybe something a little more user friendly than addresses?

If there was a new macro:

#define add_taint(flag, lockdep) __add_taint(flag, lockdep, __FILE__, __LINE__)

then renmame existing add_taint() to __add_taint() and have it save the
file/line values.

Then you could print filename:line

Also: Is it more useful to store the most recent taint of each type,
or the first of each type?

-Tony