Re: [PATCH] tty: ldisc: add sysctl to prevent autoloading of ldiscs

2019-01-30 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 07:01:42PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 05:26:42PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > By default, the kernel will automatically load the module of any line > > dicipline that is asked for. As this sometimes isn't the safest thing > > to do, pro

Re: [PATCH] tty: ldisc: add sysctl to prevent autoloading of ldiscs

2019-01-21 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 05:26:42PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > By default, the kernel will automatically load the module of any line > dicipline that is asked for. As this sometimes isn't the safest thing > to do, provide a sysctl to disable this feature. > > By default, we set this to 'y'

[PATCH] tty: ldisc: add sysctl to prevent autoloading of ldiscs

2019-01-21 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
By default, the kernel will automatically load the module of any line dicipline that is asked for. As this sometimes isn't the safest thing to do, provide a sysctl to disable this feature. By default, we set this to 'y' as that is the historical way that Linux has worked, and we do not want to br