FS#74586 - [virtualbox-host-modules-arch] [virtualbox-host-dkms] Don't load modules at boot by default?
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Opened by Neven Sajko (Neven) - Friday, 29 April 2022, 10:32 GMT
Last edited by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot) - Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:03 GMT
Opened by Neven Sajko (Neven) - Friday, 29 April 2022, 10:32 GMT
Last edited by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot) - Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:03 GMT
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Details
Currently the PKGBUILDs put .conf files in
/usr/lib/modules-load.d to make the vbox out-of-tree modules
load at boot. As the three modules didn't make it into the
Linux kernel project, loading them by default seems quite
suspect from system integrity and security perspectives.
Because loading random kernel modules seems like it could
crash my system or make it more pwnable, these don't seem
like sane defaults.
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Closed by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot)
Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:03 GMT
Reason for closing: Moved
Additional comments about closing: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/p ackaging/packages/virtualbox-host-module s-arch/issues/1
Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:03 GMT
Reason for closing: Moved
Additional comments about closing: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/p ackaging/packages/virtualbox-host-module s-arch/issues/1
See https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.html
> bug reports from tainted kernels will often be ignored by developers, hence try to reproduce problems with an untainted kernel