Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] docs: admin-guide: Handle TAINT_FORCED_BIND when parsing /proc/sys/kernel/tainted

[Bradley Morgan]

On 28 September 2026 17:46:02 BST, "Uwe Kleine-König"
<u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>tainted-kernels.rst contains a small script to check which taint bits
>are set in /proc/sys/kernel/tainted. Add one more loop iteration to also
>handle the newly added TAINT_FORCED_BIND bit.
>
>Also simplify by starting the loop at 0 and save substracting 1 for each
>usage of the loop counter.
>
>Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Fixes: fcbfaffee51a ("driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers")
>Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>---
> Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
>index abbf5e3dd749..a208811ad525 100644
>--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
>+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
>@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ a particular type of taint. It's best to leave that to the aforementioned
> script, but if you need something quick you can use this shell command to
> check
> which bits are set::
> 
>-	$ for i in $(seq 20); do echo $(($i-1)) $(($(cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted)>>($i-1)&1));done
>+	$ for i in $(seq 0 20); do echo $i $(($(cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted)>>$i&1));done
> 
> Table for decoding tainted state
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # Power10

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