linux-kernel - Re: loading ipmi_watchdog causes tons of other watchdog modules to be loaded

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:36:07 +0200
From:	"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	"Arkadiusz Miskiewicz" <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: loading ipmi_watchdog causes tons of other watchdog modules to be loaded

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
<a.miskiewicz@...il.com> wrote:
>
> No udev on the system. kernel 2.6.25.18-1.
>
> After loading ipmi_watchdog and doing "cat /dev/watchdog" tons of other,
> useles, watchdog modules is loaded. Any idea what introduced such weird
> behaviour?

I guess the /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe, which lets the kernel fork a
modprobe process when you touch a "dangling" device node, which does
not have corresponding driver.

Kay
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/