Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:41:34 -0700 | From | Eric Biggers <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled |
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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.
- Eric
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