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@ 2020-03-28 23:10 akpm
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From: akpm @ 2020-03-28 23:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ast, ebiggers, gregkh, jeffv, jeyu, keescook, mcgrof, mm-commits, neilb


The patch titled
     Subject: docs-admin-guide-document-the-kernelmodprobe-sysctl-v5
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     docs-admin-guide-document-the-kernelmodprobe-sysctl-v5.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/docs-admin-guide-document-the-kernelmodprobe-sysctl-v5.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/docs-admin-guide-document-the-kernelmodprobe-sysctl-v5.patch

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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Subject: docs-admin-guide-document-the-kernelmodprobe-sysctl-v5

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200318230515.171692-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst~docs-admin-guide-document-the-kernelmodprobe-sysctl-v5
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -452,8 +452,8 @@ modprobe:
 The path to the usermode helper for autoloading kernel modules, by
 default "/sbin/modprobe".  This binary is executed when the kernel
 requests a module.  For example, if userspace passes an unknown
-filesystem type "foo" to mount(), then the kernel will automatically
-request the module "fs-foo.ko" by executing this usermode helper.
+filesystem type to mount(), then the kernel will automatically request
+the corresponding filesystem module by executing this usermode helper.
 This usermode helper should insert the needed module into the kernel.
 
 This sysctl only affects module autoloading.  It has no effect on the
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from ebiggers@google.com are

kmod-make-request_module-return-an-error-when-autoloading-is-disabled.patch
fs-filesystemsc-downgrade-user-reachable-warn_once-to-pr_warn_once.patch
docs-admin-guide-document-the-kernelmodprobe-sysctl.patch
docs-admin-guide-document-the-kernelmodprobe-sysctl-v5.patch
selftests-kmod-fix-handling-test-numbers-above-9.patch
selftests-kmod-test-disabling-module-autoloading.patch

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