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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2012-01-13 21:40:59 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2012-01-25 16:13:52 -0800
commit8962e9fcab14954ac4489089827e24e8c29f7038 (patch)
tree83498709e603c05d7b4a30ce5b9d7c9debb0423c /kernel
parent8f3ceefaed1493edfbd622026bced706055b8318 (diff)
tracepoints/module: Fix disabling tracepoints with taint CRAP or OOT
commit c10076c4304083af15a41f6bc5e657e781c1f9a6 upstream. Tracepoints are disabled for tainted modules, which is usually because the module is either proprietary or was forced, and we don't want either of them using kernel tracepoints. But, a module can also be tainted by being in the staging directory or compiled out of tree. Either is fine for use with tracepoints, no need to punish them. I found this out when I noticed that my sample trace event module, when done out of tree, stopped working. Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/tracepoint.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index db110b8ae03..f1539decd99 100644
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -634,10 +634,11 @@ static int tracepoint_module_coming(struct module *mod)
int ret = 0;
/*
- * We skip modules that tain the kernel, especially those with different
- * module header (for forced load), to make sure we don't cause a crash.
+ * We skip modules that taint the kernel, especially those with different
+ * module headers (for forced load), to make sure we don't cause a crash.
+ * Staging and out-of-tree GPL modules are fine.
*/
- if (mod->taints)
+ if (mod->taints & ~((1 << TAINT_OOT_MODULE) | (1 << TAINT_CRAP)))
return 0;
mutex_lock(&tracepoints_mutex);
tp_mod = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tp_module), GFP_KERNEL);