Re: [RFC] [PATCH] make add_taint() inline

[Andrew Morton]

donate <donate@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: donate <donate@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Who is this?

> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  add_taint() is a trivial function.
>  No need to call it out-of-line, just make it inline and
>  remove its export.

Well, presumably add_taint() was exported to modules for a reason.  If that
reason was valid then this patch requires that `tainted' be exported to
modules too.  And that allows naughty modules to trivially zero it out.

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