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authorDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>2006-01-08 01:03:41 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-08 20:13:59 -0800
commit9841d61d75da5e46ed7a978bed4f50c78b1d87fd (patch)
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parentf867bac65419a98c9682f4409e087582d29ec5f6 (diff)
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[PATCH] Add tainting for proprietary helper modules
Kernels that have had Windows drivers loaded into them are undebuggable. I've wasted a number of hours chasing bugs filed in Fedora bugzilla only to find out much later that the user had used such 'helpers', and their problems were unreproducable without them loaded. Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 4b06bba..5d9078d6 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1715,6 +1715,11 @@ static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
/* Set up license info based on the info section */
set_license(mod, get_modinfo(sechdrs, infoindex, "license"));
+ if (strcmp(mod->name, "ndiswrapper") == 0)
+ add_taint(TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);
+ if (strcmp(mod->name, "driverloader") == 0)
+ add_taint(TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD
/* Set up MODINFO_ATTR fields */
setup_modinfo(mod, sechdrs, infoindex);
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