Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> However, I'd prefer to still be able to compile a monolitic kernel;

Sure. This is one of basic requirements. I for one never use LKMs
on production servers, mostly because I want to avoid possible
kernel/LKM version skew.

> LKM are problematic from a security POV.

Yeah.

Once the LKM linker would be in kernel, it would be possible to
make LKMs a bit safer, in that kernel would only allow to load LKMs
it was previously told are safe (on boot, probably).

Jaromir
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