On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Distros have always been in the situation "we let the external modules to > > load, as it'll work when it comes to functionality, but then it's our > > duty/responsibility to explain to 3rd parties that they *really* should > > recompile". Mostly because of security fixes to static inlines, but not > > only that. > > You can use my previous patch which merely warns: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-misc.git/log/?h=spec/retpoline-module-2
Thanks for pointing this out, Andi. I've been just now writing more or less the same thing; ditching that and will reuse your patch instead. Why was the more aggresive version (6cfb521ac0d5b) merged into Linus' tree instead of that? Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
