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From: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 10/10] kmod: add a sanity check on module loading
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:03:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1481313824.3358.38.camel@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161208194930.2816-1-mcgrof@kernel.org>

On Thu, 2016-12-08 at 11:49 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> Although this does get us in the business of keeping alias maps in
> kernel, the the work to support and maintain this is trivial.

You've implemented a special treatment for request_module("fs-$X")in
finished_kmod_load(), but there are many more aliases defined (and
used) in the kernel. Do you plan to implement special code for "char-
major-$X", "crypto-$X", "binfmt-$X" etc. later? 

Regards
Martin

-- 
Dr. Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>, Tel. +49 (0)911 74053 2107
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-09 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-08 18:47 [RFC 00/10] kmod: stress test driver, few fixes and enhancements Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 18:47 ` [RFC 01/10] kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 20:24   ` Kees Cook
2016-12-13 21:10     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-16  7:41       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:48 ` [RFC 02/10] module: fix memory leak on early load_module() failures Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 20:30   ` Kees Cook
2016-12-08 21:10     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 21:17       ` Kees Cook
2016-12-09 17:06   ` Miroslav Benes
2016-12-16  8:51     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-15 18:46   ` Aaron Tomlin
2016-12-08 19:48 ` [RFC 03/10] kmod: add dynamic max concurrent thread count Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 20:28   ` Kees Cook
2016-12-08 21:00     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-14 15:38   ` Petr Mladek
2016-12-16  8:39     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-10 19:24       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:48 ` [RFC 04/10] kmod: provide wrappers for kmod_concurrent inc/dec Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 20:29   ` Kees Cook
2016-12-08 21:08     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-15 12:46       ` Petr Mladek
2016-12-16  8:05         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-22  4:48           ` Jessica Yu
2017-01-06 20:54             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-10 18:57           ` [RFC 04/10] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-11 20:08             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-16 18:02               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-18  2:37                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-22  5:07   ` Jessica Yu
2017-01-10 20:28     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:48 ` [RFC 05/10] kmod: return -EBUSY if modprobe limit is reached Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:48 ` [RFC 06/10] kmod: provide sanity check on kmod_concurrent access Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-14 16:08   ` Petr Mladek
2016-12-14 17:12     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-15 12:57   ` Petr Mladek
2017-01-10 20:00     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:49 ` [RFC 07/10] kmod: use simplified rate limit printk Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-14 16:23   ` Petr Mladek
2016-12-14 16:41     ` Joe Perches
2016-12-16  8:44     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:49 ` [RFC 08/10] sysctl: add support for unsigned int properly Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:49 ` [RFC 09/10] kmod: add helpers for getting kmod count and limit Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-15 16:56   ` Petr Mladek
2016-12-16  7:57     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-11 18:27       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:49 ` [RFC 10/10] kmod: add a sanity check on module loading Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-09 20:03   ` Martin Wilck [this message]
2016-12-09 20:56     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-15 18:08       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-15  0:27   ` Rusty Russell
2016-12-16  8:31     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-17  3:54       ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]         ` <CAB=NE6VvuA9a6hf6yoopGfUxVJQM5HyV5bNzUdsEtUV0UhbG-g@mail.gmail.com>
2016-12-20  0:53           ` Rusty Russell
2016-12-20 18:52             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-21  2:21               ` Rusty Russell
2016-12-21 13:08                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-03  0:04                   ` Rusty Russell
2017-01-06 20:36                     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-06 21:53                       ` Jessica Yu
2017-01-09 20:27                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
     [not found]                       ` <87bmvgax51.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
2017-01-09 19:56                         ` [RFC 10/10] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-06 21:03                     ` Jessica Yu
2017-01-04  2:47   ` Jessica Yu
2017-01-11 19:10 ` [RFC 00/10] kmod: stress test driver, few fixes and enhancements Luis R. Rodriguez

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