Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760613AbXJLM1T (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:27:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751403AbXJLM1M (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:27:12 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:36310 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751267AbXJLM1K (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:27:10 -0400 X-Authenticated: #5039886 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+Hp2hrYBCHi5xkJ6/1CQBQyAshyHB57u8UlKTHH6 PzjNhEBLWMa42X Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:27:19 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Steinbrink To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: what is the rationale for "TAINT_USER"? Message-ID: <20071012122719.GB30350@atjola.homenet> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 26 On 2007.10.12 08:04:20 -0400, 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? Grepping for "tainted" leads me to: echo 32 > /proc/sys/kernel/tainted Bj?rn - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/