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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@broadcom.com>,
	Aron Silverton <aron.silverton@oracle.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Itay Avraham <itayavr@nvidia.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Leonid Bloch <lbloch@nvidia.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>,
	linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 04/10] taint: Add TAINT_FWCTL
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:10:56 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4-v3-960f17f90f17+516-fwctl_jgg@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0-v3-960f17f90f17+516-fwctl_jgg@nvidia.com>

Requesting a fwctl scope of access that includes mutating device debug
data will cause the kernel to be tainted. Changing the device operation
through things in the debug scope may cause the device to malfunction in
undefined ways. This should be reflected in the TAINT flags to help any
debuggers understand that something has been done.

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 5 +++++
 include/linux/panic.h                         | 3 ++-
 kernel/panic.c                                | 1 +
 tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint               | 8 ++++++++
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
index f92551539e8a66..f91a54966a9719 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ Bit  Log  Number  Reason that got the kernel tainted
  16  _/X   65536  auxiliary taint, defined for and used by distros
  17  _/T  131072  kernel was built with the struct randomization plugin
  18  _/N  262144  an in-kernel test has been run
+ 19  _/J  524288  userspace used a mutating debug operation in fwctl
 ===  ===  ======  ========================================================
 
 Note: The character ``_`` is representing a blank in this table to make reading
@@ -182,3 +183,7 @@ More detailed explanation for tainting
      produce extremely unusual kernel structure layouts (even performance
      pathological ones), which is important to know when debugging. Set at
      build time.
+
+ 18) ``J`` if userpace opened /dev/fwctl/* and performed a FWTCL_RPC_DEBUG_WRITE
+     to use the devices debugging features. Device debugging features could
+     cause the device to malfunction in undefined ways.
diff --git a/include/linux/panic.h b/include/linux/panic.h
index 3130e0b5116b03..bf4f276be661b7 100644
--- a/include/linux/panic.h
+++ b/include/linux/panic.h
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ static inline void set_arch_panic_timeout(int timeout, int arch_default_timeout)
 #define TAINT_AUX			16
 #define TAINT_RANDSTRUCT		17
 #define TAINT_TEST			18
-#define TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT		19
+#define TAINT_FWCTL			19
+#define TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT		20
 #define TAINT_FLAGS_MAX			((1UL << TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT) - 1)
 
 struct taint_flag {
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index f861bedc1925e7..997b18c7455cd4 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -502,6 +502,7 @@ const struct taint_flag taint_flags[TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT] = {
 	TAINT_FLAG(AUX,				'X', ' ', true),
 	TAINT_FLAG(RANDSTRUCT,			'T', ' ', true),
 	TAINT_FLAG(TEST,			'N', ' ', true),
+	TAINT_FLAG(FWCTL,			'J', ' ', true),
 };
 
 #undef TAINT_FLAG
diff --git a/tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint b/tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint
index 279be06332be99..e7da0909d09707 100755
--- a/tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint
+++ b/tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint
@@ -204,6 +204,14 @@ else
 	echo " * an in-kernel test (such as a KUnit test) has been run (#18)"
 fi
 
+T=`expr $T / 2`
+if [ `expr $T % 2` -eq 0 ]; then
+	addout " "
+else
+	addout "J"
+	echo " * fwctl's mutating debug interface was used (#19)"
+fi
+
 echo "For a more detailed explanation of the various taint flags see"
 echo " Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst in the Linux kernel sources"
 echo " or https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.html"
-- 
2.46.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-08-21 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-21 18:10 [PATCH v3 00/10] Introduce fwctl subystem Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-21 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] fwctl: Add basic structure for a class subsystem with a cdev Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-23 13:48   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-08-21 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] fwctl: Basic ioctl dispatch for the character device Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-23 14:02   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-08-27 14:56     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-21 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] fwctl: FWCTL_INFO to return basic information about the device Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-23 14:14   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-08-27 14:47     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-27 14:55       ` Andy Gospodarek
2024-08-21 18:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2024-08-21 23:35   ` [PATCH v3 04/10] taint: Add TAINT_FWCTL Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-08-22 15:34     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-21 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] fwctl: FWCTL_RPC to execute a Remote Procedure Call to device firmware Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-21 23:49   ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-08-22  0:14     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-22  0:30       ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-08-27 15:27         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-23 14:23   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-08-21 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] fwctl: Add documentation Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-23 14:35   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-08-27 14:58     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-21 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] fwctl/mlx5: Support for communicating with mlx5 fw Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-23 14:48   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-08-27 15:07     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-21 18:11 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] mlx5: Create an auxiliary device for fwctl_mlx5 Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-21 18:11 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] fwctl/cxl: Add driver for CXL mailbox for handling CXL features commands (RFC) Jason Gunthorpe
2024-08-21 18:11 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] cxl: Create an auxiliary device for fwctl_cxl Jason Gunthorpe
2024-09-13 22:39 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] Introduce fwctl subystem Dave Jiang
2024-09-16  7:54   ` Leon Romanovsky
2024-09-17 20:59   ` Dave Jiang
2024-12-05 22:28 ` Shannon Nelson
2024-12-05 23:58   ` Jason Gunthorpe

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