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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] RFC: Revamp admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst to make
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Hi! Am 17.12.18 um 22:06 schrieb Randy Dunlap:
> On 12/17/18 10:24 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Here's an idea if you feel like improving this: rather than putting an
>> inscrutable program inline, add a taint_status script to scripts/ that
>> prints out the status in fully human-readable form, with the explanation
>> for every set bit.
> And some people prefer not adding tools that use python, perl, etc.

Yeah, I know :-/ On twitter @apexo (thx!) suggested these two:

dc -e"[00000000000000]n2o$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted)p"|fold
-w1|tac|nl| grep  -m 18 '.'

(echo -n 000000000000000;(echo obase=2;cat
/proc/sys/kernel/tainted)|bc)|fold -w1|tac|nl| grep -m 18 '.'

But it needs bc, which often is not installed by default  :-/ Any as you
mentioned already: using Perl (

perl -e 'printf("%016b\n",<STDIN>)' < /proc/sys/kernel/tainted |fold
-w1|tac|nl

) also has it downsides. Having something that works in plain bash/sh
would be great...

Nevertheless: I'm still inclined to put a one liner decode command into
tainted-kernels.rst so people can decode the file easily even if they do
not have attached script at hand.

> E.g., I use this shell script (named 'chktaint', which could probably
> be done better):

Many thx. Find a slightly improved version attached that directly prints
the reason. I assume that's more like what Jonathan had in mind. The
script now is also capable of decoding a value retrieved from
/proc/sys/kernel/tainted on another system.

Randy, do you spot any problems or bashisms in the code? BTW, can I have
your "Signed-off-by" for the submission?

While at it: Jonathan, you mentioned putting the script in scripts/, but
according to the Makefile in that directory it is "for various helper
programs used throughout the kernel for the build process". That's one
reason why it feels wrong to put it there. Another one: that script
targets users and thus we should try to make sure they can access it
easily. That's why I'm currently inclined to put it in tools/ somewhere.
But I'm still unsure where. tools/scripts/ is used for something else
already, so maybe tools/helper-scripts/ or something? Putting it there
and installing it by default when building tools/ afaics increases the
chances a lot that distros will actually ship it in their packages that
contain tools from that directory.

Ciao, Thorsten

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