[LTP] [PATCH v2] lib: tst_taint: Ignore WARN taint flag if already set

Jan Stancek jstancek@redhat.com
Mon Apr 27 11:10:29 CEST 2020


----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 8:15 PM Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > This commit changes the library so that it ignores the taint warn flag
> > if it was set prior to the test run. It turns out that the warn taint
> > flag is not well defined and could be easily set on a freshly booted
> > kernel for example when buggy BIOS is detected.
> >
> > Other recent example is disabling ip forward on kvm guests:
> >   https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/5815
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/a47b6a3b-c064-2f53-7cf6-d0d0720e9d99@redhat.com/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
> > CC: Chang Yin <cyin@redhat.com>
> > CC: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
> >
> 
> Reviewed-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>

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