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Re: Allow automatic kernel taint on unsigned module load to be disabled

From Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Allow automatic kernel taint on unsigned module load to be disabled
Date 2017-08-14 19:00 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> wrote:
> I think I'm missing some context here. Could you provide some more
> background and help me understand why we want to go into all this
> trouble just to avoid a taint?  Was there a recent bug report, mailing
> list discussion, etc. that spurred you to write this patch? I'm not
> understanding why this particular taint is undesirable.

Hi Jessica,

Does the version in https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/7/764 make this clearer?

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Re: Allow automatic kernel taint on unsigned module load to be disabled Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com> - 2017-08-14 19:00 +0200

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