Messages in this thread | | | From | Justin Forbes <> | Date | Thu, 4 Jan 2018 16:06:02 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 11/13] retpoline/taint: Taint kernel for missing retpoline in compiler |
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On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 8:37 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > When the kernel or a module hasn't been compiled with a retpoline > aware compiler, print a warning and set a taint flag. > > For modules it is checked at compile time, however it cannot > check assembler or other non compiled objects used in the module link. > > Due to lack of better letter it uses taint option 'Z' >
Is taint really the right thing to do here? Why not just do pr_info?
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