What makes kernel tainted?

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Mon Jan 13 15:07:57 UTC 2014


On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:56:28 -0500
Prarit Bhargava <prarit at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> The warning above is what kicked the "W" taint:
> 
> static void idr_remove_warning(int id)
> {
>         WARN(1, "idr_remove called for id=%d which is not
> allocated.\n", id); }
> 
> Yes, this can happen without proprietary stuff.  The issue is that it
> looks like something that is using the idr allocation scheme is
> busted.  Any chance you have a better log than the snippet you posted
> above (ie, dmesg?)
> 
> You should open up a BZ.
> 
> 

I have the whole abrt folder with backtrace & friends
But should I wait until it happens a number of times.

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Frank 
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