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Preventing future module loading

Posted Jun 20, 2009 16:06 UTC (Sat) by ttfkam (guest, #29791)
Parent article: 2.6.31 merge window, week 1

Hopefully now the choice between flexibilty and security is becoming more like having cake
and eating it too.

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Posted Jun 21, 2009 8:14 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Finally I can drop my ugly module_seal patch, rightfully rejected years
ago, in favour of this one (which uses an identical API except for the
name of the special file you echo 1 to).

Yay, one less patch to drag around.