tty: ldisc: add sysctl to prevent autoloading of ldiscs
authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:26:42 +0000 (17:26 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 06:37:45 +0000 (08:37 +0200)
commitad2548c9462f1aa41ddb8b7f61afeb418e64cec7
tree8ec0ef9b04b7f953c15cd4d2f7ddfae955c2a9ea
parent429977fd9f7153607230a6040ee12510a525e930
tty: ldisc: add sysctl to prevent autoloading of ldiscs

commit 7c0cca7c847e6e019d67b7d793efbbe3b947d004 upstream.

By default, the kernel will automatically load the module of any line
dicipline that is asked for.  As this sometimes isn't the safest thing
to do, provide a sysctl to disable this feature.

By default, we set this to 'y' as that is the historical way that Linux
has worked, and we do not want to break working systems.  But in the
future, perhaps this can default to 'n' to prevent this functionality.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/Kconfig
drivers/tty/tty_io.c
drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c