Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:30:36 +0200 | From | Nadia Derbey <> | Subject | Re: what is the rationale for "TAINT_USER"? |
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Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i can see what the theoretical purpose for it is here: > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/6656 > > but it's not clear how it can possibly be set from userland given > that: > > $ grep -r TAINT_USER * > include/linux/kernel.h:#define TAINT_USER (1<<6) > kernel/panic.c: tainted & TAINT_USER ? 'U' : ' ', > $ > > am i missing something screamingly obvious? > > rday
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL { .ctl_name = KERN_TAINTED, .procname = "tainted", .data = &tainted, .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec_taint, }, #endif
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