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From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] x86,module: Detect VMX modules and disable Split-Lock-Detect
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Date:   Thu, 02 Apr 2020 18:46:19 +0200
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"Kenneth R. Crudup" <kenny@panix.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2020, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> This seems like much more of a fixup than we would usually do ....
>
> TBH, I was kinda surprised to see that patchset myself.
>
> 	-Kenny, guessing Linus hasn't read this far yet :)

The much we hate it, we simply have users depending on these things for
various reasons.

That said, I'm perfectly fine with changing it to 'refuse module load'.

Thanks,

        tglx