Make forced module loading optional
The kernel module loader used to be much too happy to allow loading of modules for the wrong kernel version by default. For example, if you had MODVERSIONS enabled, but tried to load a module with no version info, it would happily load it and taint the kernel - whether it was likely to actually work or not! Generally, such forced module loading should be considered a really really bad idea, so make it conditional on a new config option (MODULE_FORCE_LOAD), and make it default to off. If somebody really wants to force module loads, that's their problem, but we should not encourage it. Especially as it happened to me by mistake (ie regular unversioned Fedora modules getting loaded) causing lots of strange behavior. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -825,6 +825,15 @@ menuconfig MODULES
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If unsure, say Y.
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config MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
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bool "Forced module loading"
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depends on MODULES
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default n
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help
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This option allows loading of modules even if that would set the
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'F' (forced) taint, due to lack of version info. Which is
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usually a really bad idea.
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config MODULE_UNLOAD
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bool "Module unloading"
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depends on MODULES
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