On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 12:45 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > On a related topic (needless to say, this should never have happened > and is being raised at the highest levels inside Intel): > > There are legitimate reasons to write a root-hole module, the main one > being able to test security features like SMAP. I have requested > before a TAINT flag specifically for this purpose, because > TAINT_CRAP is nowhere near explicit enough, and is also used for > staging drivers. Call it TAINT_TOXIC or TAINT_ROOTHOLE; it should > always be accompanied with a CRIT level alert.
Are these flags easy to bump into in the first place for a person with no prior familarity with the kernel? /Jarkko
