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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>,
	Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] module autoloading fixes and cleanups
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 22:28:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200320052819.GB1315@sol.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200318230515.171692-1-ebiggers@kernel.org>

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 04:05:10PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> This series fixes a bug where request_module() was reporting success to
> kernel code when module autoloading had been completely disabled via
> 'echo > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe'.
> 
> It also addresses the issues raised on the original thread
> (https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20200310223731.126894-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/T/#u)
> by documenting the modprobe sysctl, adding a self-test for the empty
> path case, and downgrading a user-reachable WARN_ONCE().
> 
> Changed since v3:
>   - Added Fixes tag to the fs/filesystems.c patch, and mentioned why the
>     warning is continued to be printed once only.
> 
> Changed since v2:
>   - Adjusted the new documentation to avoid implicitly bringing up
>     module aliases, which are a more complex topic.
>   - Split the selftest patch into two patches, one to fix the test
>     numbering bug and one to add the new tests.
> 
> Changed since v1:
>   - Added patches to address the other issues raised on the thread.

It seems that people are relatively happy with this patch series now.
Andrew, will you be taking it through -mm?  I don't see any better place.

Thanks,

- Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-20  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-18 23:05 [PATCH v4 0/5] module autoloading fixes and cleanups Eric Biggers
2020-03-18 23:05 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled Eric Biggers
2020-03-18 23:05 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] fs/filesystems.c: downgrade user-reachable WARN_ONCE() to pr_warn_once() Eric Biggers
2020-03-18 23:05 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] docs: admin-guide: document the kernel.modprobe sysctl Eric Biggers
2020-03-30 18:48   ` Eric Biggers
2020-03-18 23:05 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] selftests: kmod: fix handling test numbers above 9 Eric Biggers
2020-03-18 23:05 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] selftests: kmod: test disabling module autoloading Eric Biggers
2020-03-20  5:28 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2020-03-21  2:27   ` [PATCH v4 0/5] module autoloading fixes and cleanups Andrew Morton
2020-03-23 17:12     ` Eric Biggers
2020-03-27 17:41       ` Eric Biggers

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