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authorPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>2007-07-17 04:03:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-17 10:23:02 -0700
commitbcdcd8e725b923ad7c0de809680d5d5658a7bf8c (patch)
treef8fe86531df3bd96c0d8fd2d7a8fb1a6639261db /arch/x86_64
parent74489a91dd43aecd638709d34a2f58b91cfda5cf (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.c1
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);