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| author | Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> | 2007-07-17 04:03:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -0700 |
| commit | bcdcd8e725b923ad7c0de809680d5d5658a7bf8c (patch) | |
| tree | f8fe86531df3bd96c0d8fd2d7a8fb1a6639261db /arch/x86_64 | |
| parent | 74489a91dd43aecd638709d34a2f58b91cfda5cf (diff) | |
Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPS
If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as
tainted. Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the
tainted kernel. This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the
calltraces.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c index 7fa155c394d..6963b64a76c 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c @@ -518,6 +518,7 @@ void __kprobes __die(const char * str, struct pt_regs * regs, long err) printk("\n"); notify_die(DIE_OOPS, str, regs, err, current->thread.trap_no, SIGSEGV); show_registers(regs); + add_taint(TAINT_DIE); /* Executive summary in case the oops scrolled away */ printk(KERN_ALERT "RIP "); printk_address(regs->rip); |