These modules may be loaded lazily without user's awareness and control. Add respective aliases to modules and request them under these aliases so that modprobe's blacklisting mechanism (through aliases) works for them. (The same pattern exists e.g. for filesystem modules.) For example (before the change): $ tc filter add dev lo parent 1: protocol ip prio 1 handle 10 tcindex ... # cls_tcindex module is loaded despite a `blacklist cls_tcindex` entry # in /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf After the change: $ tc filter add dev lo parent 1: protocol ip prio 1 handle 10 tcindex ... Unknown filter "tcindex", hence option "..." is unparsable # explicit/acknowledged (privileged) action is needed $ modprobe cls_tcindex # blacklist entry won't apply to this direct modprobe, module is # loaded with awareness A considered alternative was invoking `modprobe -b` always from request_module(), however, dismissed as too intrusive and slightly confusing in favor of the precedented aliases (the commit 7f78e0351394 ("fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules."). User experience suffers in both alternatives. It's improvement is orthogonal to blacklist honoring. Changes from v1 (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231121175640.9981-1-mkoutny@xxxxxxxx) - Treat sch_ and act_ modules analogously to cls_ Changes from v2 (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231206192752.18989-1-mkoutny@xxxxxxxx) - reorganized commits (one generated commit + manual pre-/post- work) - used alias names more fitting the existing net- aliases - more info in commit messages and cover letter - rebased on current master Michal Koutný (4): net/sched: Add helper macros with module names net/sched: Add module aliases for cls_,sch_,act_ modules net/sched: Load modules via their alias net/sched: Remove aliases of act_xt and sch_clsact include/net/act_api.h | 1 + include/net/pkt_cls.h | 1 + include/net/pkt_sched.h | 1 + net/sched/act_api.c | 2 +- net/sched/act_bpf.c | 1 + net/sched/act_connmark.c | 1 + net/sched/act_csum.c | 1 + net/sched/act_ct.c | 1 + net/sched/act_ctinfo.c | 1 + net/sched/act_gact.c | 1 + net/sched/act_gate.c | 1 + net/sched/act_ife.c | 1 + net/sched/act_ipt.c | 3 ++- net/sched/act_mirred.c | 1 + net/sched/act_mpls.c | 1 + net/sched/act_nat.c | 1 + net/sched/act_pedit.c | 1 + net/sched/act_police.c | 1 + net/sched/act_sample.c | 1 + net/sched/act_simple.c | 1 + net/sched/act_skbedit.c | 1 + net/sched/act_skbmod.c | 1 + net/sched/act_tunnel_key.c | 1 + net/sched/act_vlan.c | 1 + net/sched/cls_api.c | 2 +- net/sched/cls_basic.c | 1 + net/sched/cls_bpf.c | 1 + net/sched/cls_cgroup.c | 1 + net/sched/cls_flow.c | 1 + net/sched/cls_flower.c | 1 + net/sched/cls_fw.c | 1 + net/sched/cls_matchall.c | 1 + net/sched/cls_route.c | 1 + net/sched/cls_u32.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_api.c | 2 +- net/sched/sch_cake.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_cbs.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_choke.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_codel.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_drr.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_etf.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_ets.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_fq.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_fq_codel.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_gred.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_hfsc.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_hhf.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_htb.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_ingress.c | 3 ++- net/sched/sch_mqprio.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_multiq.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_netem.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_pie.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_plug.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_prio.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_qfq.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_red.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_sfb.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_sfq.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_skbprio.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_taprio.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_tbf.c | 1 + 62 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 2.43.0