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Linus Torvalds 826e4506a0 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>
2008-05-04 17:04:16 -07:00
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irq genirq: reenable a nobody cared disabled irq when a new driver arrives 2008-05-02 13:40:34 +02:00
power Merge branches 'release', 'acpica', 'bugzilla-10224', 'bugzilla-9772', 'bugzilla-9916', 'ec', 'eeepc', 'idle', 'misc', 'pm-legacy', 'sysfs-links-2.6.26', 'thermal', 'thinkpad' and 'video' into release 2008-04-30 13:58:00 -04:00
time clocksource: allow read access to available/current_clocksource 2008-05-03 18:11:48 +02:00
.gitignore
acct.c
audit_tree.c
audit.c
audit.h
auditfilter.c Merge branch 'audit.b50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current 2008-04-29 11:41:22 -07:00
auditsc.c
backtracetest.c
bounds.c Add kbuild.h that contains common definitions for kbuild users 2008-04-29 08:06:29 -07:00
capability.c
cgroup_debug.c CGroup API files: move "releasable" to cgroup_debug subsystem 2008-04-29 08:06:09 -07:00
cgroup.c mm: bdi: add separate writeback accounting capability 2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
compat.c ntp: support for TAI 2008-05-01 08:03:59 -07:00
configs.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
cpu.c kernel: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-04-30 08:29:54 -07:00
cpuset.c Cpuset hardwall flag: add a mem_hardwall flag to cpusets 2008-04-29 08:06:11 -07:00
delayacct.c
dma.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
exec_domain.c
exit.c [PATCH] split linux/file.h 2008-05-01 13:08:16 -04:00
extable.c
fork.c [PATCH] split linux/file.h 2008-05-01 13:08:16 -04:00
futex_compat.c
futex.c add hrtimer specific debugobjects code 2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
hrtimer.c hrtimer: remove duplicate helper function 2008-05-03 18:11:48 +02:00
itimer.c
kallsyms.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: make extended crashkernel= syntax less confusing 2008-05-01 08:04:00 -07:00
kfifo.c
kgdb.c
kmod.c [PATCH] split linux/file.h 2008-05-01 13:08:16 -04:00
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c Deprecate find_task_by_pid() 2008-04-30 08:29:48 -07:00
latencytop.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
lockdep.c
Makefile sysctl: allow embedded targets to disable sysctl_check.c 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
marker.c make marker_debug static 2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
module.c Make forced module loading optional 2008-05-04 17:04:16 -07:00
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
notifier.c ipc: re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing msgmni if set to negative 2008-04-29 08:06:13 -07:00
ns_cgroup.c cgroups: kernel/ns_cgroup.c should #include <linux/nsproxy.h> 2008-04-29 08:06:07 -07:00
nsproxy.c ipc: sysvsem: refuse clone(CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_NEWIPC) 2008-04-29 08:06:14 -07:00
panic.c
params.c
pid_namespace.c pidns: make pid->level and pid_ns->level unsigned 2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
pid.c pids: introduce change_pid() helper 2008-04-30 08:29:48 -07:00
pm_qos_params.c
posix-cpu-timers.c remove div_long_long_rem 2008-05-01 08:03:58 -07:00
posix-timers.c signals: join send_sigqueue() with send_group_sigqueue() 2008-04-30 08:29:36 -07:00
printk.c printk: don't read beyond string arguments' terminating zero 2008-04-30 08:29:52 -07:00
profile.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
ptrace.c make generic sys_ptrace unconditional 2008-05-01 10:21:54 -07:00
rcuclassic.c
rcupdate.c
rcupreempt_trace.c
rcupreempt.c
rcutorture.c kernel: explicitly include required header files under kernel/ 2008-04-29 08:06:04 -07:00
relay.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2008-04-29 08:18:03 -07:00
res_counter.c memcgroup: add the max_usage member on the res_counter 2008-04-29 08:06:10 -07:00
resource.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
rtmutex_common.h
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c
sched_debug.c rename div64_64 to div64_u64 2008-05-01 08:03:58 -07:00
sched_fair.c
sched_features.h
sched_idletask.c
sched_rt.c
sched_stats.h
sched.c rename div64_64 to div64_u64 2008-05-01 08:03:58 -07:00
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c signals: add set_restore_sigmask 2008-04-30 08:29:37 -07:00
softirq.c Fix cpu hotplug problem in softirq code 2008-05-01 08:03:58 -07:00
softlockup.c
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c
sys.c pids: sys_getpgid: fix unsafe *pid usage, s/tasklist/rcu/ 2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
sysctl_check.c
sysctl.c sysctl: add the ->permissions callback on the ctl_table_root 2008-04-29 08:06:23 -07:00
taskstats.c Use find_task_by_vpid in taskstats 2008-04-30 08:29:48 -07:00
test_kprobes.c
time.c Make constants in kernel/timeconst.h fixed 64 bits 2008-05-02 16:18:42 -07:00
timeconst.pl Make constants in kernel/timeconst.h fixed 64 bits 2008-05-02 16:18:42 -07:00
timer.c debugobjects: add timer specific object debugging code 2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
tsacct.c
uid16.c
user_namespace.c eCryptfs: make key module subsystem respect namespaces 2008-04-29 08:06:07 -07:00
user.c alloc_uid: cleanup 2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c kernel: explicitly include required header files under kernel/ 2008-04-29 08:06:04 -07:00
wait.c
workqueue.c workqueue: remove redundant function invocation 2008-05-01 08:04:02 -07:00