Re: [v3 01/12] taint: Introduce a new taint flag (insecure)

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Wed Oct 24 2018 - 14:50:56 EST


On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:43 AM Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For testing (or root-only) purposes, the new flag will serve to tag the
> kernel taint accurately.
>
> When adding a new feature support, patches need to be incrementally
> applied and tested with temporal parameters. Currently, there is no flag
> for this usage.

I don't object to this patch per se, but it seems unnecessary to me.
Especially since, once the whole series is applied, this code is again
unused.