Re: request_module vs. modprobe blacklist (and security subsystem implications)

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

> The problem is that a number of programs (sendmail, procmail, sshd, and
> more) have all been seen to do operations which tried to load the ipv6
> module.  These get into request_module(), hit the security hook, and are
> obviously denied since the security system doesn't see a need for those
> programs to be able to request a module be loaded.

What's the problem with being denied? After all the programs expect
this to error out

If you're worrying about the audit entries -- the obvious place
to fix that is somewhere in your security code. Don't make the rest
of the code uglier for this.

-Andi