[PATCH v2] docs: admin-guide: update tiny script for number of taint flags
From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Feb 16 2026 - 01:37:44 EST
Account for 2 new taint flags being added by increasing the number of
bits handled by the tiny show-tainted-flags example script.
Fixes: 8eea4e744758 ("taint: Add TAINT_FWCTL")
Fixes: 2852ca7fba9f ("panic: Taint kernel if tests are run")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: rebase and resend
@Jason: the note that you asked to be added to kernel/panic.c has
already been merged: commit ed4bbe7e8fa1:
Author: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct 15 15:16:26 2025 -0700
taint: add reminder about updating docs and scripts
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-next-20260213.orig/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
+++ linux-next-20260213/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ a particular type of taint. It's best to
script, but if you need something quick you can use this shell command to check
which bits are set::
- $ for i in $(seq 18); do echo $(($i-1)) $(($(cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted)>>($i-1)&1));done
+ $ for i in $(seq 20); do echo $(($i-1)) $(($(cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted)>>($i-1)&1));done
Table for decoding tainted state
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