[kernel] Taint if virtualbox modules have been loaded.

Dave Jones davej at fedoraproject.org
Thu Oct 6 22:39:29 UTC 2011


commit 64f1bc96d9377bee8c6e79fec4e2ea3e26e27718
Author: Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Oct 6 18:39:09 2011 -0400

    Taint if virtualbox modules have been loaded.

 kernel.spec      |    6 ++++++
 taint-vbox.patch |   15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index 8e2f359..a04e181 100644
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -645,6 +645,7 @@ Patch09: linux-2.6-upstream-reverts.patch
 
 # Standalone patches
 
+Patch100: taint-vbox.patch
 Patch160: linux-2.6-32bit-mmap-exec-randomization.patch
 Patch161: linux-2.6-i386-nx-emulation.patch
 
@@ -1204,6 +1205,8 @@ ApplyOptionalPatch linux-2.6-compile-fixes.patch
 ApplyOptionalPatch linux-2.6-upstream-reverts.patch -R
 
 
+ApplyPatch taint-vbox.patch
+
 # Architecture patches
 # x86(-64)
 ApplyPatch linux-2.6-32bit-mmap-exec-randomization.patch
@@ -2049,6 +2052,9 @@ fi
 #                 ||----w |
 #                 ||     ||
 %changelog
+* Thu Oct 06 2011 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
+- Taint if virtualbox modules have been loaded.
+
 * Wed Oct 05 2011 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
 - Linux 3.1-rc9
 
diff --git a/taint-vbox.patch b/taint-vbox.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5cb3e47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/taint-vbox.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
+index 04379f92..d26c9a3 100644
+--- a/kernel/module.c
++++ b/kernel/module.c
+@@ -2653,6 +2653,10 @@ static int check_module_license_and_versions(struct module *mod)
+ 	if (strcmp(mod->name, "ndiswrapper") == 0)
+ 		add_taint(TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);
+ 
++	/* vbox is garbage. */
++	if (strcmp(mod->name, "vboxdrv") == 0)
++		add_taint(TAINT_CRAP);
++
+ 	/* driverloader was caught wrongly pretending to be under GPL */
+ 	if (strcmp(mod->name, "driverloader") == 0)
+ 		add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);


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