From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>,
Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:08:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200311180805.GA1273@sol.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200311180107.GO11244@42.do-not-panic.com>
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 06:01:07PM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:41:34AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:28:07AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 03:37:31PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > > > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> > > >
> > > > It's long been possible to disable kernel module autoloading completely
> > > > by setting /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to the empty string. This can be
> > >
> > > Hunh. I've never seen that before. :) I've always used;
> > >
> > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/modules_disabled
> > >
> > > Regardless,
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > >
> >
> > modules_disabled is different because it disables *all* module loading, not just
> > autoloading.
>
> Clarifying this on your patch would be useful, otherwise its lost
> tribal knowledge.
I think it would be more useful to improve the documentation in proc(5) and
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst. People shouldn't have to read
random kernel commit messages to find the documentation.
I'll send out patches for those.
- Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-11 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-10 22:37 [PATCH] kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled Eric Biggers
2020-03-11 4:32 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-03-11 5:26 ` Eric Biggers
2020-03-11 6:31 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-03-11 17:35 ` Eric Biggers
2020-03-11 18:00 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-03-11 18:21 ` Eric Biggers
2020-03-11 18:40 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-03-11 5:55 ` Josh Triplett
2020-03-11 6:32 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-03-11 17:28 ` Kees Cook
2020-03-11 17:41 ` Eric Biggers
2020-03-11 17:50 ` Kees Cook
2020-03-11 18:01 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-03-11 18:08 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
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