Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754294AbZFVUAI (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:00:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752305AbZFVT75 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:59:57 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f224.google.com ([209.85.220.224]:55530 "EHLO mail-fx0-f224.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751966AbZFVT74 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:59:56 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date :message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=BSr5ZmBnefH6JqeNfZ7xPYXYvLnV2xfAojjC9XW2rz1hiRslDqoDWFg7JRpa+8wFjn q974MkKH5VDLiEG6a2OHurvVhqR9VO0BXAQDomdjcnBGLk5QSmnjDhJRy4OWARk2IJag 6/tp0jpqH3FxA7uQAdvJvveDNiFCkPNjJ1RmU= Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new TAINT_KSPLICE flag for when a Ksplice update has been loaded. From: Maxim Levitsky To: Chuck Ebbert Cc: Tim Abbott , Linus Torvalds , Linux kernel mailing list , Arjan van de Ven , Alexey Dobriyan , Andrew Morton , Anders Kaseorg , Jeffrey B Arnold In-Reply-To: <20090622134655.60b7c44a@dhcp-100-2-144.bos.redhat.com> References: <20090622134655.60b7c44a@dhcp-100-2-144.bos.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:59:53 +0300 Message-Id: <1245700793.8986.0.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1229 Lines: 32 On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 13:46 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:57:21 -0400 (EDT) > Tim Abbott wrote: > > > Distributions and kerneloops.org have requested that the Ksplice > > rebootless update system taint the kernel the first time that a > > Ksplice update is installed, in order to assist with bug triage. > > > > Ksplice uses a new taint flag, TAINT_KSPLICE, displayed as 'K', for > > this purpose. > > > > We would like to confirm that this use of taint meets with the > > community's approval and get this taint flag registered in mainline. > > > > How about a more generic taint flag that just says some user program has > patched the running kernel? Like TAINT_ROOTKIT :-) > -- > 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/ -- 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/