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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-05-15 09:42:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-05-15 09:42:27 -0700 |
| commit | a4147415bdf152748416e391dd5d6958ad0a96da (patch) | |
| tree | 17af29b47e472f21258d1b06d7061561ca28f2cb /Documentation | |
| parent | f36edc5533b2653a2d3df2d38cbef25cfd37e32e (diff) | |
| parent | 86d0c164272536c732853e19391de5159f860701 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"13 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: resource, squashfs, hfsplus,
modprobe, and mm (hugetlb, slub, userfaultfd, ksm, pagealloc, kasan,
pagemap, and ioremap)"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
mm/ioremap: fix iomap_max_page_shift
docs: admin-guide: update description for kernel.modprobe sysctl
hfsplus: prevent corruption in shrinking truncate
mm/filemap: fix readahead return types
kasan: fix unit tests with CONFIG_UBSAN_LOCAL_BOUNDS enabled
mm: fix struct page layout on 32-bit systems
ksm: revert "use GET_KSM_PAGE_NOLOCK to get ksm page in remove_rmap_item_from_tree()"
userfaultfd: release page in error path to avoid BUG_ON
squashfs: fix divide error in calculate_skip()
kernel/resource: fix return code check in __request_free_mem_region
mm, slub: move slub_debug static key enabling outside slab_mutex
mm/hugetlb: fix cow where page writtable in child
mm/hugetlb: fix F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst index 1d56a6b73a4e..7ca8df5451d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst @@ -483,10 +483,11 @@ modprobe ======== The full path to the usermode helper for autoloading kernel modules, -by default "/sbin/modprobe". This binary is executed when the kernel -requests a module. For example, if userspace passes an unknown -filesystem type to mount(), then the kernel will automatically request -the corresponding filesystem module by executing this usermode helper. +by default ``CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH``, which in turn defaults to +"/sbin/modprobe". This binary is executed when the kernel requests a +module. For example, if userspace passes an unknown filesystem type +to mount(), then the kernel will automatically request the +corresponding filesystem module by executing this usermode helper. This usermode helper should insert the needed module into the kernel. This sysctl only affects module autoloading. It has no effect on the |