From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 10:29:09 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Alexei Starovoitov , Andy Lutomirski , Linus Torvalds , Kees Cook , Alexei Starovoitov , Djalal Harouni , Al Viro , "David S. Miller" , Daniel Borkmann , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Network Development , LKML , kernel-team , Linux API Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries Message-ID: <20180309182909.GA15270@kroah.com> References: <87478c51-59a7-f6ac-1fb2-f3ca2dcf658b@fb.com> <6d2e31fa-d87b-fea6-c919-b7d066bb0385@fb.com> <20180309181527.GA15803@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 10:23:27AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > > On Mar 9, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > Oh, and for the record, I like Andy's proposal as well as dumping this > > into a kernel module "blob" with the exception that this now would take > > up unswapable memory, which isn't the nicest and is one big reason we > > removed the in-kernel-memory firmware blobs many years ago. > > > > It might not be totally crazy to back it by tmpfs. Ah, yeah, tricky, but yes, I'd be fine with that. Micro-kernel here we come! :)