Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:56:46 -0400 (EDT) | From | Tim Abbott <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add new TAINT_KSPLICE flag for when a Ksplice update has been loaded. |
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: > Have the ksplice people considered using /proc/sys/kernel/tainted and > TAINT_USER?
We're thinking about using TAINT_USER to indicate when a user has installed a Ksplice update that they generated on their own. We'd like to be able to distinguish between the cases (1) where a user has generated a potentially-bad Ksplice update by providing their own naughty patch and (2) where a user is running binary Ksplice updates provided by a vendor that is taking care to use Ksplice properly. Our patch currently uses TAINT_KSPLICE to indicate whether _any_ Ksplice update has been applied.
-Tim Abbott
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