From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753288AbdK0TOl (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2017 14:14:41 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:56424 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751700AbdK0TOj (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2017 14:14:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 04:14:26 +0900 (KST) Message-Id: <20171128.041426.801732093971324601.davem@davemloft.net> To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: tixxdz@gmail.com, keescook@chromium.org, luto@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mcgrof@kernel.org, james.l.morris@oracle.com, ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk, solar@openwall.com, serge@hallyn.com, jeyu@kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, corbet@lwn.net, mingo@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 next 0/5] Improve Module autoloading infrastructure From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <1511803118-2552-1-git-send-email-tixxdz@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 25.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:14:38 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:41:30 -0800 > What are the real life use-cases for normal users having modules > auto-load? User opens SCTP socket, SCTP protocol module loads. People build test cases via namespaces, and in that namespaces normal users can setup virtual tunnel devices themselves, and those configure operations can bring the tunnel module in.