panic: Taint kernel if tests are run

Most in-kernel tests (such as KUnit tests) are not supposed to run on
production systems: they may do deliberately illegal things to trigger
errors, and have security implications (for example, KUnit assertions
will often deliberately leak kernel addresses).

Add a new taint type, TAINT_TEST to signal that a test has been run.
This will be printed as 'N' (originally for kuNit, as every other
sensible letter was taken.)

This should discourage people from running these tests on production
systems, and to make it easier to tell if tests have been run
accidentally (by loading the wrong configuration, etc.)

Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Gow <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>

Author: sulix

Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst

@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ Bit  Log  Number  Reason that got the kernel tainted
  15  _/K   32768  kernel has been live patched
  16  _/X   65536  auxiliary taint, defined for and used by distros
  17  _/T  131072  kernel was built with the struct randomization plugin
+ 18  _/N  262144  an in-kernel test has been run
 ===  ===  ======  ========================================================
 
 Note: The character ``_`` is representing a blank in this table to make reading

include/linux/panic.h

@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ static inline void set_arch_panic_timeout(int timeout, int arch_default_timeout)
 #define TAINT_LIVEPATCH			15
 #define TAINT_AUX			16
 #define TAINT_RANDSTRUCT		17
-#define TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT		18
+#define TAINT_TEST			18
+#define TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT		19
 #define TAINT_FLAGS_MAX			((1UL << TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT) - 1)
 
 struct taint_flag {

kernel/panic.c

@@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ const struct taint_flag taint_flags[TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT] = {
 	[ TAINT_LIVEPATCH ]		= { 'K', ' ', true },
 	[ TAINT_AUX ]			= { 'X', ' ', true },
 	[ TAINT_RANDSTRUCT ]		= { 'T', ' ', true },
+	[ TAINT_TEST ]			= { 'N', ' ', true },
 };
 
 /**