panic: Taint kernel if tests are run
authorDavid Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Fri, 1 Jul 2022 08:47:41 +0000 (16:47 +0800)
committerShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 1 Jul 2022 22:38:35 +0000 (16:38 -0600)
commit2852ca7fba9f77b204f0fe953b31fadd0057c936
treef1115190292206c03e129a4b5c579e976ff9d03c
parentf2906aa863381afb0015a9eb7fefad885d4e5a56
panic: Taint kernel if tests are run

Most in-kernel tests (such as KUnit tests) are not supposed to run on
production systems: they may do deliberately illegal things to trigger
errors, and have security implications (for example, KUnit assertions
will often deliberately leak kernel addresses).

Add a new taint type, TAINT_TEST to signal that a test has been run.
This will be printed as 'N' (originally for kuNit, as every other
sensible letter was taken.)

This should discourage people from running these tests on production
systems, and to make it easier to tell if tests have been run
accidentally (by loading the wrong configuration, etc.)

Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
include/linux/panic.h
kernel/panic.c