netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries

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Message-Id: <20180309.135724.452219538059491199.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 09 Mar 2018 13:57:24 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     luto@...capital.net, ast@...com, keescook@...omium.org,
        ast@...nel.org, tixxdz@...il.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        daniel@...earbox.net, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        mcgrof@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf
 binaries

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 10:53:45 -0800

> Anyway, see my other suggestion that makes this all irrelevant. Just
> wait synchronously (until the exit), and just use deny_write_access().

What exit?

Once the helper UMH is invoked, it runs asynchronously taking eBPF
translation requests.