On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 12:39:53AM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 06:39:46PM -0400, Rafael Aquini wrote: > > Users with SYS_ADMIN capability can add arbitrary taint flags > > to the running kernel by writing to /proc/sys/kernel/tainted > > or issuing the command 'sysctl -w kernel.tainted=...'. I just notice 2 minor 'screw ups' on my part in the commit log: > > These interface, however, are open for any integer value This one probably needs to be reprhased as: "The interface, however, is ... " > > and this might an invalid set of flags being committed to and I'm missing a verb here, as it should read: "and this might cause an invalid ... " I hope these are easy fixes, in the pre-merge step. (Sorry!) > > the tainted_mask bitset. > > > > This patch introduces a simple way for proc_taint() to ignore > > any eventual invalid bit coming from the user input before > > committing those bits to the kernel tainted_mask. > > > > Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> > Thanks! -- Rafael
