package DDG::Goodie::KernelTaint; # ABSTRACT: Parses and explains the OR'd values of /proc/sys/kernel/tainted use strict; use DDG::Goodie; zci answer_type => 'kernel_taint'; zci is_cached => 1; triggers any => 'kernel taint', 'linux taint', 'linux kernel taint', 'taint kernel' , 'taint linux', 'taint linux kernel', '/proc/sys/kernel/tainted', 'proc sys kernel tainted'; my %descriptions = ( 1 => 'A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this includes modules with no license. Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.', 2 => 'A module was force loaded by insmod -f. Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.', 4 => 'Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP.', 8 => 'A module was forcibly unloaded from the system by rmmod -f.', 16 => 'A hardware machine check error occurred on the system.', 32 => 'A bad page was discovered on the system.', 64 => 'The user has asked that the system be marked "tainted". This could be because they are running software that directly modifies the hardware, or for other reasons.', 128 => 'The system has died.', 256 => 'The ACPI DSDT has been overridden with one supplied by the user instead of using the one provided by the hardware.', 512 => 'A kernel warning has occurred.', 1024 => 'A module from drivers/staging was loaded.', 2048 => 'The system is working around a severe firmware bug.', 4096 => 'An out-of-tree module has been loaded.', ); handle remainder => sub { s/description|error|\s+//g; return unless /^\d+$/; my $mask = shift; my @taints = grep { $_ } map { $mask & 1<<$_ ? "$descriptions{2**$_}" : ''; } (0..(scalar keys %descriptions)-1); return join("\n", map { "- $_" } @taints), html => '' . 'Read more'; }; 1;