From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PULL] modules
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:27:54 +0100
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> I realize that fips_enabled is only for crazy people, but it's exactly
> code like this that limits it to only crazy people. Is there some
> *reason* for this?

Presumably its so a typical server with reboot on panic will reboot so
the attacker can hide the attempt better ;-)

Alan