From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:54:42 +1030
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Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> writes:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 08:27:38 +0100
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> 
>> * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > Users have reported being unable to trace non-signed modules loaded 
>> > within a kernel supporting module signature.
>> 
>> External modules should strive to get out of the 'crap' and
>> 'felony law breaker' categories and we should not make it
>> easier for them to linger in a broken state.
>> 
>> Nacked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Well, distributions which sign their modules are sending a pretty strong
"go away" signal already.

I'm ambivalent towards out-of-tree modules, so not tempted unless I see
a bug report indicating a concrete problem.  Then we can discuss...

Cheers,
Rusty.
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