Add tainting for proprietary helper modules.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Dec 02 2005 - 19:40:33 EST


Kernels that have had Windows drivers loaded into them are undebuggable.
I've wasted a number of hours chasing bugs filed in Fedora bugzilla
only to find out much later that the user had used such 'helpers',
and their problems were unreproducable without them loaded.

Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- linux-2.6.14/kernel/module.c~ 2005-11-29 16:44:00.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.14/kernel/module.c 2005-11-29 17:03:55.000000000 -0500
@@ -1723,6 +1723,11 @@ static struct module *load_module(void _
/* Set up license info based on the info section */
set_license(mod, get_modinfo(sechdrs, infoindex, "license"));

+ if (strcmp(mod->name, "ndiswrapper") == 0)
+ add_taint(TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);
+ if (strcmp(mod->name, "driverloader") == 0)
+ add_taint(TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD
/* Set up MODINFO_ATTR fields */
setup_modinfo(mod, sechdrs, infoindex);
-
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