From: Randy Dunlap Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:58:12 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] update Doc/oops-tracing.txt for TAINT_USER X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc1~14 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a631694a36a3b52b786b3ae6abe54bd8d1b6eb74;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] update Doc/oops-tracing.txt for TAINT_USER Add TAINT_USER description to Tainted flags in oops-tracing.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 2503404ae5..ea55ea8bc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -234,6 +234,12 @@ characters, each representing a particular tainted value. 6: 'B' if a page-release function has found a bad page reference or some unexpected page flags. + 7: 'U' if a user specifically requested that the Tainted flag be set, + ' ' otherwise. + + 7: 'U' if a user or user application specifically requested that the + Tainted flag be set, ' ' otherwise. + The primary reason for the 'Tainted: ' string is to tell kernel debuggers if this is a clean kernel or if anything unusual has occurred. Tainting is permanent: even if an offending module is