11 Mar
2020
11 Mar
'20
5:50 p.m.
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.
Yes, quite true. Some day I'd love to revisit this series to improve autoloading sanity checking: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/24
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Kees Cook