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From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,
	Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>,
	linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] module: Fix missing taint flags for unloaded modules
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:05:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261020-taint-unload-v1-1-d1c764889afc@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261020-taint-unload-v1-0-d1c764889afc@suse.com>

When recording taint flags for an unloaded module, try_add_tainted_module()
can fail to record some of the module's flags if a record for a module with
the same name already exists and the two have at least one flag in common.
This happens because the function uses 'mod_taint->taints & mod->taints' to
determine whether to merge the new module with the existing record. As
a result, the final report may not provide accurate information about the
taint flags of unloaded modules.

Fix the duplicate check by using the stricter equality comparison.

Fixes: 99bd9956551b ("module: Introduce module unload taint tracking")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
---
 kernel/module/tracking.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/module/tracking.c b/kernel/module/tracking.c
index 9033ff54c4e2..5bcd1c2701f0 100644
--- a/kernel/module/tracking.c
+++ b/kernel/module/tracking.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ int try_add_tainted_module(struct module *mod)
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod_taint, &unloaded_tainted_modules, list,
 				lockdep_is_held(&module_mutex)) {
 		if (!strcmp(mod_taint->name, mod->name) &&
-		    mod_taint->taints & mod->taints) {
+		    mod_taint->taints == mod->taints) {
 			mod_taint->count++;
 			goto out;
 		}

-- 
2.55.0

  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-20 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-20 14:05 [PATCH 0/3] module: Fixes to tracking taint flags for unloaded modules Petr Pavlu
2026-10-20 14:05 ` Petr Pavlu [this message]
2026-10-20 15:10   ` [PATCH 1/3] module: Fix missing " Aaron Tomlin
2026-10-20 14:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] module: Fix data race on mod_unload_taint::count Petr Pavlu
2026-10-20 14:13   ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-20 14:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] module: Move mod_unload_taint to tracking.c Petr Pavlu
2026-10-20 15:09   ` Aaron Tomlin

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