[PATCH v3 1/3] docs: admin-guide: Handle TAINT_FORCED_BIND when parsing /proc/sys/kernel/tainted
From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Mon Sep 28 2026 - 13:01:45 EST
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2.47.3