Driver core fixes for 7.4-rc1 (2nd)
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Danilo Krummrich
maintainerHi Linus,
Please pull these driver-core fixes.
The main fix is a revert of TAINT_FORCED_BIND, which is too broad and causes established VFIO workflows to taint the kernel.
Thanks,
Danilo
The following changes since commit 0cc3ad8f4d2e2009c2005278c754caf7c07fe0a4:
Merge tag 'driver-core-7.4-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core (2026-10-26 07:04:41 -1000)
are available in the Git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core.git tags/driver-core-7.4-rc1-3
for you to fetch changes up to a287f97d4256b5f5527f5b5a54f8ada55e1482c7:
Revert "driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers" (2026-10-29 21:01:16 +0100)
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Driver core fixes for 7.4-rc1
- Revert TAINT_FORCED_BIND, introduced to flag manual sysfs bind/unbind operations associated with misleading fuzzing reports. It also taints established workflows, including VFIO device passthrough; a more targeted approach will be revisited after 7.4.
- Rate limit synthetic uevent failure messages to prevent log flooding from repeated invalid writes to sysfs uevent files
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Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
Revert "driver core: add TAINT_FORCED_BIND for when userspace manually messes with devices and drivers"
Josef Bacik (1):
driver core: Limit the messages on a refused uevent
Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------- drivers/base/bus.c | 3 --- drivers/base/core.c | 4 +++- include/linux/panic.h | 3 +-- include/trace/events/module.h | 3 +-- kernel/panic.c | 5 ++--- lib/kobject_uevent.c | 6 +++--- tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint | 8 -------- 8 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
The pull request you sent on Sat, 31 Oct 2026 01:07:07 +0100:
The pull request you sent on Sat, 31 Oct 2026 01:07:07 +0100:
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core.gittags/driver-core-7.4-rc1-3
has been merged into torvalds/linux.git:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/2a500a04d6f969318c05f46aedb6e73fc1963a00
Thank you!
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