+ taint-add-reminder-about-updating-docs-and-scripts.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

+ taint-add-reminder-about-updating-docs-and-scripts.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: taint: add reminder about updating docs and scripts
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     taint-add-reminder-about-updating-docs-and-scripts.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/taint-add-reminder-about-updating-docs-and-scripts.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Subject: taint: add reminder about updating docs and scripts
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:16:26 -0700

Sometimes people update taint-related pieces of the kernel without
updating the supporting documentation or scripts.  Add a reminder to do
this.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015221626.1126156-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/panic.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/panic.c~taint-add-reminder-about-updating-docs-and-scripts
+++ a/kernel/panic.c
@@ -638,6 +638,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic);
 /*
  * TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD could be a per-module flag but the module
  * is being removed anyway.
+ *
+ * NOTE: if you modify the taint_flags or TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT,
+ * please also modify tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint and
+ * Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst, including its
+ * small shell script that prints the TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT bits of
+ * /proc/sys/kernel/tainted.
  */
 const struct taint_flag taint_flags[TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT] = {
 	TAINT_FLAG(PROPRIETARY_MODULE,		'P', 'G', true),
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from rdunlap@infradead.org are

taint-add-reminder-about-updating-docs-and-scripts.patch