> > Also what's the point of putting this information into every symbol? > > It makes it easy to check :)
Easier than nm? Per symbol still doesn't make any sense to me. > > > Once per module is good enough. > > > > We already have similar checks for staging etc. > > Sure, but this is more of a "Hey, your version of GCC is doing something > different than what you built the kernel with, watch out!" which is much > more generic and good to know. A whole taint for one CPU bug type seems > overkill to me. I removed the taint in version 2, posted yesterday. It now just prints the warning and resets the vulnerability reporting in sysfs. -Andi
