On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 06:06:06PM -0400, Rafael Aquini wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 08:33:40PM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > > I *think* that a cmdline route to enable this would likely remove the > > need for the kernel config for this. But even with Vlastimil's work > > merged, I think we'd want yet-another value to enable / disable this > > feature. Do we need yet-another-taint flag to tell us that this feature > > was enabled? > > > > I guess it makes sense to get rid of the sysctl interface for > proc_on_taint, and only keep it as a cmdline option. That would be easier to support and k3eps this simple. > But the real issue seems to be, regardless we go with a cmdline-only option > or not, the ability of proc_taint() to set any arbitrary taint flag > other than just marking the kernel with TAINT_USER. I think we would have no other option but to add a new TAINT flag so that we know that the taint flag was modified by a user. Perhaps just re-using TAINT_USER when proc_taint() would suffice. Luis _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
