This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Give the OID registry file module info to avoid kernel tainting
to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
give-the-oid-registry-file-module-info-to-avoid-kernel-tainting.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 9e6879460c8edb0cd3c24c09b83d06541b5af0dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 08:48:27 +0100
Subject: Give the OID registry file module info to avoid kernel tainting
From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 9e6879460c8edb0cd3c24c09b83d06541b5af0dc upstream.
Give the OID registry file module information so that it doesn't taint the
kernel when compiled as a module and loaded.
Reported-by: Dros Adamson <Weston.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/oid_registry.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/lib/oid_registry.c
+++ b/lib/oid_registry.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
* 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
*/
+#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/oid_registry.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
@@ -16,6 +17,10 @@
#include <linux/bug.h>
#include "oid_registry_data.c"
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("OID Registry");
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Red Hat, Inc.");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+
/**
* look_up_OID - Find an OID registration for the specified data
* @data: Binary representation of the OID
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/fs-fscache-stats.c-fix-memory-leak.patch
queue-3.9/give-the-oid-registry-file-module-info-to-avoid-kernel-tainting.patch
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