Linux kernel adds a taint for impractical forced-bind fuzz reports
A proposed TAINT_FORCED_BIND flag would mark kernels where userspace manually writes a driver’s sysfs bind or unbind controls. That gives maintainers a way to distinguish bugs triggered by fuzzers pairing arbitrary devices and drivers from failures in normal device workflows; fuzzing setups can also use panic_on_taint to stop wasting cycles on those combinations.
The change is queued in driver-core-next for a planned Linux 7.4 submission, so it is not yet a released kernel feature. Phoronix’s discussion page returned 403, so I couldn’t review commenter reactions.