Re: [RFC PATCH] kernel/panic: Add TAINT_AUX

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 09:19:16AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> If I were an end-user looking at my kernel trace that had an "X" flag,
> how would I go look up what it actually means? Is "git grep TAINT_AUX"
> going to sufficiently answer that question?

Just like with the other taint letters. I look it up by looking at the
comment over print_tainted(). Unless it is P or M - those I know :-)

> How does SUSE use it currently?

We will use it to mark modules for which we don't provide support. I.e.,
a really eXternal module :-)

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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