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Subject: Re: pkcs7_message: taint, no license
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 08:44:08 -0800
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On 11/08/2017 05:01 AM, David Howells wrote:
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
>> [74785.692410] pkcs7_message: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
>> [74785.692414] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
> 
> Are you particularly using the pkcs#7 parser as a module?  I wonder if it
> makes most sense to make this and the X.509 options 'bool' rather than
> 'tristate'.

Yes, it's built as a loadable module.
'bool' would certainly prevent that.

-- 
~Randy