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Message-ID: <20180309182909.GA15270@kroah.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 10:29:09 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...il.com>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
kernel-team <kernel-team@...com>,
Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf
binaries
On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 10:23:27AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
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> > On Mar 9, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
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> >
> > 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! :)
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