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[Seth Arnold <1566074@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can understand that but I'd really rather see it someplace that's hard
for users to get to. Every now and then someone finds a bug that allows
loading any kernel module on demand and this module seems likely to have
functionality that should not be exposed to untrusted users.

(I haven't reviewed it, and it's my goal to not review it. :)

Thanks

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Title:
  splat.ko is packaged

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  I just noticed that splat.ko from the SPL upstream is packaged in our
  linux-image-* packages:

  https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-
  team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+build/9397038/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-xenial-
  amd64.linux_4.4.0-16.32_BUILDING.txt.gz

  $ zgrep splat.ko buildlog_ubuntu-xenial-amd64.linux_4.4.0-16.32_BUILDING.txt.gz 
   linux-4.4.0/spl/module/splat/splat-kobj.c
    CC [M]  /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-generic/spl/module/splat/splat-kobj.o
    LD [M]  /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-generic/spl/module/splat/splat.ko
    CC [M]  /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-lowlatency/spl/module/splat/splat-kobj.o
    LD [M]  /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-lowlatency/spl/module/splat/splat.ko
    INSTALL /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-generic/spl/module/splat/splat.ko
    INSTALL /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/build/build-lowlatency/spl/module/splat/splat.ko
  		kernel/zfs/splat/splat.ko
  -rw-r--r-- root/root    344662 2016-03-25 01:59 ./lib/modules/4.4.0-16-generic/kernel/zfs/splat/splat.ko
  -rw-r--r-- root/root    325110 2016-03-25 03:12 ./lib/modules/4.4.0-16-lowlatency/kernel/zfs/splat/splat.ko

  splat.ko is used only with the /usr/sbin/splat testing tool from the
  spl package. I suspect we shouldn't include this module in packages
  that we expect users to install.

  Thanks

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