Hi Roman,
patch to his kernel and happily go ahead, but I guess it's rather expected that SuSE provides a patched kernel rpms combined with usual official security notice... Or am I wrong?
You might be, yes. The complete and correct fix is not there yet. We're working on it, but be sure we won't publish any kernels that we would have to correct a week or so later again. That is certainly appreciated!
The next announcement in the queue has a temporary workaround in section 2). Hope it'll include an answer to Bob Vicker's question as well:
It has been suggested that a workround is to set /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to /any/bogus/file
Could a kind expert summarise in layman's terms what functionality you lose by doing this on a running system that has been up for a while (so most of the needed modules are already loaded)?
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