Re: [PATCH v2] net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdevkernel modules

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Mar 24 2011 - 17:58:25 EST


On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 02:46:28PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:39:44 -0700
>
> > This breaks for many of the tunneling protocols, that rely on
> > autoload for names like "sit0"
>
> Frankly I'm very disappointed in the fallout this has been causing.
>
> Everyone supporting this change, get real, and admit it doing in fact
> cause a serious regression.
>
> If you can't get past that simple fact, you cannot discuss this issue
> intelligently.
>
> You can't say "userland will fix things up"
>
> Because we're never supposed to break userland in the first place.
>
> There is simply no excuse for this and I want this change reverted
> both in Linus's tree and in -stable.

Ok, as I totally got lost in the thread here, what is the git commit id
of the patch to revert?

thanks,

greg k-h
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