On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 10:54:23AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > Same for Red Hat. Unloading livepatch modules seems to work fine, but > isn't officially supported. > > That said, if rmmod is just considered a development aid, and we're > going to be ignoring bugs, we should make it official with a new > TAINT_RMMOD.
Another option would be to have live-patch modules leak a module reference by default, except when some debug sysctl is set or something. Then only those LP modules loaded while the sysctl is set to 'YOLO' can be unloaded.
