Re: [RFC PATCH] panic: Add new taint flag for fault injection

Steven Rostedt
2022-12-01T16:49:14Z

On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 08:39:28 -0800
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 01:37:13AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu (Google) wrote:
> > From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> >
> > Since the function error injection framework in the fault injection
> > subsystem can change the function code flow forcibly, it may cause
> > unexpected behavior (but that is the purpose of this feature).
> > To identify this in the kernel oops message, add a new taint flag
> > for this, and set it if it is (and similar things in BPF) used.
>
> Why is hooking through BPF considered to be "fault injection" here?
>

Have you not been reading this thread?

-- Steve