Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On 3/9/18 10:23 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Mar 9, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Oh, and for the record, I like Andy's proposal as well as dumping this
> > into a kernel module "blob" with the exception that this now would take
> > up unswapable memory, which isn't the nicest and is one big reason we
> > removed the in-kernel-memory firmware blobs many years ago.
>
> It might not be totally crazy to back it by tmpfs.

interesting. how do you propose to do it?
Something like:
- create /umh_module_tempxxx dir
- mount tmpfs there
- copy elf into it and exec it?