Re: [PATCH] panic: Taint kernel if fault injection has been used

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 01:45:59PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu (Google) wrote:
> From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Since the function error injection framework in the fault injection
> subsystem can change the function code flow forcibly, it may cause
> unexpected behavior (and that is the purpose of this feature) even
> if it is applied to the ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION functions.
> So this feature must be used only for debugging or testing purpose.
> 
> To identify this in the kernel oops message, add a new taint flag
> for the fault injection. This taint flag will be set by either
> function error injection is used or the BPF use the kprobe_override
> on error injectable functions (identified by ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION).
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221121104403.1545f9b5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst |    5 +++++
>  include/linux/panic.h                         |    3 ++-
>  kernel/fail_function.c                        |    2 ++
>  kernel/panic.c                                |    1 +
>  kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c                      |    2 ++
>  5 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

I think you forgot to also update tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint with
this new entry :(