Subject: port-amiga/2355: 'options INSECURE' not listed in GENERIC
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Donald J. Maddox <dmaddox@scsn.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/28/1996 15:20:52
>Number: 2355
>Category: port-amiga
>Synopsis: GENERIC does not list 'options INSECURE'
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 29 16:05:01 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Donald J. Maddox
>Organization:
Donald J. Maddox
dmaddox@scsn.net
>Release: 1.1
>Environment:
System: NetBSD rhiannon.scsn.net 1.1B NetBSD 1.1B (RHIANNON) #27: Sat Apr 27 17:48:59 EDT 1996 dmaddox@rhiannon.scsn.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/amiga/compile/RHIANNON amiga
Architecture: amiga
>Description:
The GENERIC configuration says that it contains all possible
options, but 'options INSECURE' is not listed. This is a fairly serious
problem because if one tries to load an lkm (for example, the amiga audio
driver lkm) on a running system using a kernel compiled without 'options
INSECURE', it will fail in a way that is totally inexplicable if you are
not aware of this option's existence and purpose.
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
The following patch will at least serve to document the existence
of the 'INSECURE' option:
*** GENERIC.orig Sun Apr 28 14:53:21 1996
--- GENERIC Sun Apr 28 14:57:26 1996
***************
*** 88,93 ****
--- 88,94 ----
options GENERIC # Mini-root boot support
options LKM # Loadable kernel modules
options "NKMEMCLUSTERS=256" # Size of kernel malloc area
+ #options INSECURE # Allow loading lkm's at runlevel > 0
#
# Misc. debuging options
>Audit-Trail:
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