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panic: Taint kernel if tests are run
authorDavid Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Fri, 1 Jul 2022 08:47:41 +0000 (16:47 +0800)
committerShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 1 Jul 2022 22:38:35 +0000 (16:38 -0600)
commit9be649d00d489fbafa79a5cba10ba385d6aa8ae1
treef1115190292206c03e129a4b5c579e976ff9d03c
parentf040cca4b0da0180bf9de9141ef5c95f60f85182
panic: Taint kernel if tests are run

Most in-kernel tests (such as KUnit tests) are not supposed to run on
production systems: they may do deliberately illegal things to trigger
errors, and have security implications (for example, KUnit assertions
will often deliberately leak kernel addresses).

Add a new taint type, TAINT_TEST to signal that a test has been run.
This will be printed as 'N' (originally for kuNit, as every other
sensible letter was taken.)

This should discourage people from running these tests on production
systems, and to make it easier to tell if tests have been run
accidentally (by loading the wrong configuration, etc.)

Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
include/linux/panic.h
kernel/panic.c