From ed4bbe7e8fa186b24c61aa22a32885d5de0fe1a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:16:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] taint: add reminder about updating docs and scripts Sometimes people update taint-related pieces of the kernel without updating the supporting documentation or scripts. Add a reminder to do this. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015221626.1126156-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: David Gow Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/panic.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index 24cc3eec1805f..ec59cade1f83f 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -638,6 +638,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic); /* * TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD could be a per-module flag but the module * is being removed anyway. + * + * NOTE: if you modify the taint_flags or TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT, + * please also modify tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint and + * Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst, including its + * small shell script that prints the TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT bits of + * /proc/sys/kernel/tainted. */ const struct taint_flag taint_flags[TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT] = { TAINT_FLAG(PROPRIETARY_MODULE, 'P', 'G', true), -- 2.47.3