Re: [patch 1/2] x86,module: Detect VMX modules and disable Split-Lock-Detect

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Apr 02 2020 - 12:46:52 EST


"Kenneth R. Crudup" <kenny@xxxxxxxxx> 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