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On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 08:18:21 +0200
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> And I would love a taint for rmmod, but what is that going to help out
> with?

Just like any other taint. If a rmmod can cause the system to lose
integrity, the rmmod could cause a subtle issue that manifests itself into
something more serious and may look unrelated. If you have a bug report
with the rmmod taint, one could ask to try to recreate the bug without
doing rmmod. Or perhaps we have a similar bug reports that all show the
rmmod taint. That would give us an impression that something was removed
and caused the system to lose stability.

-- Steve