linux/kernel
Theodore Ts'o 34f5a39899 [PATCH] Add TAINT_USER and ability to set taint flags from userspace
Allow taint flags to be set from userspace by writing to
/proc/sys/kernel/tainted, and add a new taint flag, TAINT_USER, to be used
when userspace has potentially done something dangerous that might
compromise the kernel.  This will allow support personnel to ask further
questions about what may have caused the user taint flag to have been set.

For example, they might examine the logs of the realtime JVM to see if the
Java program has used the really silly, stupid, dangerous, and
completely-non-portable direct access to physical memory feature which MUST
be implemented according to the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ).
Sigh.  What were those silly people at Sun thinking?

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:29 -08:00
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irq devres: device resource management 2007-02-09 17:39:36 -05:00
power [PATCH] swsusp: Change pm_ops handling by userland interface 2007-02-11 10:51:20 -08:00
time [PATCH] kernel/time/clocksource.c needs struct task_struct on m68k 2007-02-11 10:51:20 -08:00
.gitignore gitignore: ignore more generated files 2006-01-03 11:35:26 +01:00
acct.c [PATCH] kernel: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path 2006-12-08 08:28:42 -08:00
audit.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
audit.h [PATCH] audit: AUDIT_PERM support 2006-09-11 13:32:30 -04:00
auditfilter.c [PATCH] audit: fix kstrdup() error check 2006-12-22 08:55:49 -08:00
auditsc.c [PATCH] struct path: convert kernel 2006-12-08 08:28:46 -08:00
capability.c [PATCH] pidspace: is_init() 2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
compat.c [PATCH] Create compat_sys_migrate_pages 2006-11-03 12:27:59 -08:00
configs.c [PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constification 2006-12-07 08:39:46 -08:00
cpu.c [PATCH] swsusp: Change code ordering in disk.c 2007-02-11 10:51:19 -08:00
cpuset.c [PATCH] cpuset procfs warning fix 2006-12-30 10:56:43 -08:00
delayacct.c [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
dma.c [PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constification 2006-12-07 08:39:46 -08:00
exec_domain.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
exit.c [PATCH] namespaces: fix task exit disaster 2007-01-30 13:40:36 -08:00
extable.c [PATCH] symbol_put_addr() locks kernel 2006-05-15 11:20:55 -07:00
fork.c [PATCH] fork_idle() should be __cpuinit, not __devinit 2007-02-01 16:17:06 -08:00
futex_compat.c [PATCH] __user annotations: futex 2006-10-10 15:37:22 -07:00
futex.c [PATCH] kernel: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path 2006-12-08 08:28:42 -08:00
hrtimer.c [PATCH] posix-timers: Fix clock_nanosleep() doesn't return the remaining time in compatibility mode 2006-09-29 09:18:15 -07:00
itimer.c [PATCH] hrtimers: remove data field 2006-03-26 08:57:03 -08:00
kallsyms.c [PATCH] move kallsyms data to .rodata 2006-12-08 08:28:37 -08:00
Kconfig.hz [PATCH] HZ: 300Hz support 2006-12-07 08:39:36 -08:00
Kconfig.preempt [PATCH] sched: voluntary kernel preemption 2005-06-25 16:24:45 -07:00
kexec.c Merge branch 'release' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2006-12-07 15:39:22 -08:00
kfifo.c [PATCH] memory ordering in __kfifo primitives 2006-09-29 09:18:13 -07:00
kmod.c [PATCH] rename struct namespace to struct mnt_namespace 2006-12-08 08:28:51 -08:00
kprobes.c [PATCH] kprobes: replace magic numbers with enum 2007-01-30 16:01:35 -08:00
ksysfs.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
kthread.c WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data 2006-11-22 14:55:48 +00:00
latency.c [PATCH] severing module.h->sched.h 2006-12-04 02:00:22 -05:00
lockdep_internals.h [PATCH] lockdep: more chains 2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
lockdep_proc.c [PATCH] lockdep: add graph depth information to /proc/lockdep 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
lockdep.c [PATCH] lockdep: add graph depth information to /proc/lockdep 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
Makefile Remove stack unwinder for now 2006-12-15 08:47:51 -08:00
module.c /sys/modules/*/holders 2007-02-07 10:37:12 -08:00
mutex-debug.c [PATCH] lockdep: show more details about self-test failures 2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
mutex-debug.h [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging 2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
mutex.c [PATCH] lockdep: avoid lockdep warning in md 2006-12-08 08:28:39 -08:00
mutex.h [PATCH] lockdep: prove mutex locking correctness 2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
nsproxy.c Revert "[PATCH] namespaces: fix exit race by splitting exit" 2007-01-30 13:35:18 -08:00
panic.c [PATCH] Add TAINT_USER and ability to set taint flags from userspace 2007-02-11 10:51:29 -08:00
params.c /sys/modules/*/holders 2007-02-07 10:37:12 -08:00
pid.c [PATCH] namespaces: fix task exit disaster 2007-01-30 13:40:36 -08:00
posix-cpu-timers.c [PATCH] posix-cpu-timers: prevent signal delivery starvation 2006-10-17 08:18:43 -07:00
posix-timers.c [PATCH] Transform kmem_cache_alloc()+memset(0) -> kmem_cache_zalloc(). 2007-02-11 10:51:27 -08:00
printk.c [PATCH] make kernel/printk.c:ignore_loglevel_setup() static 2006-12-22 08:55:47 -08:00
profile.c [PATCH] fix "kvm: add vm exit profiling" 2007-01-23 07:52:05 -08:00
ptrace.c [PATCH] pidspace: is_init() 2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
rcupdate.c [PATCH] rcu: add a prefetch() in rcu_do_batch() 2006-12-07 08:39:40 -08:00
rcutorture.c [PATCH] rcu: rcutorture suspend fix 2006-12-30 10:55:55 -08:00
relay.c [PATCH] Relay: add CPU hotplug support 2007-02-11 10:51:28 -08:00
resource.c devres: device resource management 2007-02-09 17:39:36 -05:00
rtmutex_common.h [PATCH] pi-futex: futex_lock_pi/futex_unlock_pi support 2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.c Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h> 2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
rtmutex-debug.h [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging 2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
rtmutex-tester.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
rtmutex.c [PATCH] clean up and remove some extra spinlocks from rtmutex 2006-09-29 09:18:09 -07:00
rtmutex.h [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging 2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
rwsem.c [PATCH] lockdep: prove rwsem locking correctness 2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
sched.c [PATCH] Consolidate default sched_clock() 2007-02-11 10:51:28 -08:00
seccomp.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
signal.c [PATCH] kill_pid_info: kill acquired_tasklist_lock 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
softirq.c [PATCH] softirq: remove BUG_ONs which can incorrectly trigger 2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
softlockup.c [PATCH] check return value of cpu_callback 2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
spinlock.c [PATCH] lockdep: spin_lock_irqsave_nested() 2006-11-25 13:28:34 -08:00
srcu.c [PATCH] SRCU: report out-of-memory errors 2006-10-04 07:55:30 -07:00
stacktrace.c [PATCH] lockdep: stacktrace subsystem, core 2006-07-03 15:27:02 -07:00
stop_machine.c [PATCH] stop_machine.c copyright 2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
sys_ni.c [PATCH] Create compat_sys_migrate_pages 2006-11-03 12:27:59 -08:00
sys.c [PATCH] notifiers: fix blocking_notifier_call_chain() scalability 2007-01-23 11:08:03 -08:00
sysctl.c [PATCH] Add TAINT_USER and ability to set taint flags from userspace 2007-02-11 10:51:29 -08:00
taskstats.c [PATCH] taskstats: cleanup reply assembling 2006-12-07 08:39:34 -08:00
time.c [PATCH] NTP: Move all the NTP related code to ntp.c 2006-10-01 00:39:26 -07:00
timer.c [PATCH] schedule_timeout(): improve warning message 2006-12-22 08:55:49 -08:00
tsacct.c [PATCH] io-accounting: via taskstats 2006-12-10 09:55:41 -08:00
uid16.c [PATCH] Add more prevent_tail_call() 2006-04-19 16:27:18 -07:00
user.c [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
utsname.c [PATCH] namespaces: utsname: implement CLONE_NEWUTS flag 2006-10-02 07:57:22 -07:00
wait.c [PATCH] uninline init_waitqueue_head() 2006-07-10 13:24:25 -07:00
workqueue.c [PATCH] fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-rc1 2006-12-22 08:55:47 -08:00