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    Make forced module loading optional · 826e4506
    Linus Torvalds authored
    
    
    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: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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