Staging: add TAINT_CRAP for all drivers/staging code
We need to add a flag for all code that is in the drivers/staging/
directory to prevent all other kernel developers from worrying about
issues here, and to notify users that the drivers might not be as good
as they are normally used to.
Based on code from Andreas Gruenbacher and Jeff Mahoney to provide a
TAINT flag for the support level of a kernel module in the Novell
enterprise kernel release.
This is the kernel portion of this feature, the ability for the flag to
be set needs to be done in the build process and will happen in a
follow-up patch.
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 9db1191..152b165 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1806,6 +1806,7 @@
Elf_Ehdr *hdr;
Elf_Shdr *sechdrs;
char *secstrings, *args, *modmagic, *strtab = NULL;
+ char *staging;
unsigned int i;
unsigned int symindex = 0;
unsigned int strindex = 0;
@@ -1960,6 +1961,14 @@
goto free_hdr;
}
+ staging = get_modinfo(sechdrs, infoindex, "staging");
+ if (staging) {
+ add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_CRAP);
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: module is from the staging directory,"
+ " the quality is unknown, you have been warned.\n",
+ mod->name);
+ }
+
/* Now copy in args */
args = strndup_user(uargs, ~0UL >> 1);
if (IS_ERR(args)) {
@@ -2556,6 +2565,8 @@
buf[bx++] = 'P';
if (mod->taints & TAINT_FORCED_MODULE)
buf[bx++] = 'F';
+ if (mod->taints & TAINT_CRAP)
+ buf[bx++] = 'C';
/*
* TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD: could be added.
* TAINT_UNSAFE_SMP, TAINT_MACHINE_CHECK, TAINT_BAD_PAGE don't