From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>,
Jeffrey B Arnold <jbarnold@ksplice.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new TAINT_KSPLICE flag for when a Ksplice update has been loaded.
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:59:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245700793.8986.0.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090622134655.60b7c44a@dhcp-100-2-144.bos.redhat.com>
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 13:46 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:57:21 -0400 (EDT)
> Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> wrote:
>
> > Distributions and kerneloops.org have requested that the Ksplice
> > rebootless update system taint the kernel the first time that a
> > Ksplice update is installed, in order to assist with bug triage.
> >
> > Ksplice uses a new taint flag, TAINT_KSPLICE, displayed as 'K', for
> > this purpose.
> >
> > We would like to confirm that this use of taint meets with the
> > community's approval and get this taint flag registered in mainline.
> >
>
> How about a more generic taint flag that just says some user program has
> patched the running kernel?
Like TAINT_ROOTKIT :-)
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-22 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-19 19:57 [PATCH] Add new TAINT_KSPLICE flag for when a Ksplice update has been loaded Tim Abbott
2009-06-19 20:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-06-22 7:51 ` Jon Masters
2009-06-22 8:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-06-22 13:32 ` Tim Abbott
2009-06-22 14:53 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-23 18:56 ` Tim Abbott
2009-06-22 21:25 ` Jon Masters
2009-06-22 17:46 ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-06-22 19:59 ` Maxim Levitsky [this message]
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