Hi,

VM doesn't boot with this parameter enabled, as confirmed by Linus mail.
So my upgraded to Stretch leaded to a complete system outage because of
this parameter.

I held on kernel 3.19 from Jessie meanwhile.

Best Regards,
Helio Loureiro
http://helio.loureiro.eng.br
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2017-07-26 17:56 GMT+02:00 Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org>:

> On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 17:13 +0200, Helio Loureiro wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As much it sounds correct to protect systems in this way, you broke
> > compatibility.  I'm back to kernel 3.19 until this is fixed.
> >
> > So in order to have such parameter enabled, you should at the least
> > provide a bootparam option to toggle enabled or not.
> >
> > From my point of view as user, you should never break backward
> > compatibility, as bad is sounds in terms of security.  And you should
> > never enforce it to users.
>
> Other than a single warning printed to dmesg during boot, what is
> actually broken for you?
>
> Ian.
>

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