linux-yocto/tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint

#! /bin/sh

SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org, 2018

Thorsten Leemhuis linux@leemhuis.info, 2018

usage() { cat <<EOF usage: ${0##/} ${0##/}

Call without parameters to decode /proc/sys/kernel/tainted.

Call with a positive integer as parameter to decode a value you retrieved from /proc/sys/kernel/tainted on another system.

EOF }

if [ "$1"x != "x" ]; then if [ "$1"x == "--helpx" ] || [ "$1"x == "-hx" ] ; then usage exit 1 elif [ $1 -ge 0 ] 2>/dev/null ; then taint=$1 else echo "Error: Parameter '$1' not a positive integer. Aborting." >&2 exit 1 fi else TAINTFILE="/proc/sys/kernel/tainted" if [ ! -r $TAINTFILE ]; then echo "No file: $TAINTFILE" exit fi

taint=`cat $TAINTFILE`

fi

if [ $taint -eq 0 ]; then echo "Kernel not Tainted" exit else echo "Kernel is "tainted" for the following reasons:" fi

T=$taint out=

addout() { out=$out$1 }

if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout "G" else addout "P" echo " * proprietary module was loaded (#0)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "F" echo " * module was force loaded (#1)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "S" echo " * kernel running on an out of specification system (#2)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "R" echo " * module was force unloaded (#3)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "M" echo " * processor reported a Machine Check Exception (MCE) (#4)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "B" echo " * bad page referenced or some unexpected page flags (#5)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "U" echo " * taint requested by userspace application (#6)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "D" echo " * kernel died recently, i.e. there was an OOPS or BUG (#7)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "A" echo " * an ACPI table was overridden by user (#8)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "W" echo " * kernel issued warning (#9)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "C" echo " * staging driver was loaded (#10)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "I" echo " * workaround for bug in platform firmware applied (#11)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "O" echo " * externally-built ('out-of-tree') module was loaded (#12)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "E" echo " * unsigned module was loaded (#13)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "L" echo " * soft lockup occurred (#14)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "K" echo " * kernel has been live patched (#15)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "X" echo " * auxiliary taint, defined for and used by distros (#16)"

fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "T" echo " * kernel was built with the struct randomization plugin (#17)" fi

T=expr $T / 2 if [ expr $T % 2 -eq 0 ]; then addout " " else addout "N" echo " * an in-kernel test (such as a KUnit test) has been run (#18)" fi

echo "For a more detailed explanation of the various taint flags see" echo " Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst in the Linux kernel sources" echo " or https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.html" echo "Raw taint value as int/string: $taint/'$out'" #EOF#