[PATCH V2 06/15] taint: Add taint for insecure

From: Chang S. Bae
Date: Thu May 31 2018 - 14:02:17 EST


When adding new feature support, patches need to be
incrementally applied and tested with temporal parameters.
For such testing (or root-only) purposes, the new flag
will serve to tag the kernel taint state properly.

Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 1 +
include/linux/kernel.h | 3 ++-
kernel/panic.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index eded671d..06c4009 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -992,6 +992,7 @@ ORed together. The letters are seen in "Tainted" line of Oops reports.
32768 (K): The kernel has been live patched.
65536 (X): Auxiliary taint, defined and used by for distros.
131072 (T): The kernel was built with the struct randomization plugin.
+262144 (Z): The kernel is running in a known insecure configuration.

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diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 6a1eb0b..7051415 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -563,7 +563,8 @@ extern enum system_states {
#define TAINT_LIVEPATCH 15
#define TAINT_AUX 16
#define TAINT_RANDSTRUCT 17
-#define TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT 18
+#define TAINT_INSECURE 18
+#define TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT 19

struct taint_flag {
char c_true; /* character printed when tainted */
diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 42e4874..53ea36a 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ const struct taint_flag taint_flags[TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT] = {
[ TAINT_LIVEPATCH ] = { 'K', ' ', true },
[ TAINT_AUX ] = { 'X', ' ', true },
[ TAINT_RANDSTRUCT ] = { 'T', ' ', true },
+ [ TAINT_INSECURE ] = { 'Z', ' ', false },
};

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