From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-team <kernel-team@fb.com>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>,
werner@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:15:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrWFhTurv0gwxRcdLn4CD-1ySE=v4ZgvbsUYJqruZNMptQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180322205413.GA30543@wotan.suse.de>
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:54 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
> If we can ensure that these usermode modules don't take *any time at all* on
> their init *from the start*, it would be wonderful and we'd end up avoiding
> some really odd corner case issues later.
>
I don't see why this issue needs to exist at all for the new stuff.
After all, the new things aren't usermode modules per se. They're
regular kernel code (modular or otherwise) that loads a usermode
helper. All we need to do is to make sure that, if this is
distributed as a module, that it's init routine doesn't wait for a
long time, right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-22 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-06 1:34 [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-06 2:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-03-06 3:02 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-06 11:05 ` Greg KH
2018-03-07 1:07 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-07 3:24 ` Greg KH
2018-03-06 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-06 23:42 ` Chris Mason
2018-05-02 9:12 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-03-06 20:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-06 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-07 17:22 ` David Miller
2018-03-08 1:23 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-08 23:07 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 1:58 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-09 0:24 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-09 0:57 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 1:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 1:25 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 1:24 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-09 0:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 1:20 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 2:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 2:31 ` David Miller
2018-03-09 3:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 3:27 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 1:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 1:44 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-09 3:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 3:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 3:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 5:08 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 15:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 15:39 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 16:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 17:32 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 18:15 ` Greg KH
2018-03-09 18:23 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 18:29 ` Greg KH
2018-03-09 18:50 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 18:55 ` David Miller
2018-03-09 19:37 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-10 1:43 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-11 2:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 18:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 18:35 ` David Miller
2018-03-09 18:43 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-09 18:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 18:54 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-09 18:58 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-12 12:02 ` Edward Cree
2018-03-12 17:49 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 18:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 18:57 ` David Miller
2018-03-09 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 19:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-10 2:34 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-10 14:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-10 15:16 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-10 15:34 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-12 17:22 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-13 8:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-22 20:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-22 22:15 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2018-03-22 22:21 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-23 2:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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