[PATCH] Add finit_module syscall for Linux

[Florian Weimer]

On 01/23/2013 06:26 AM, Kees Cook wrote:

> Yeah, seems true. Weird. The callers (e.g. kmod) use their own externs. Hmpf
>
> $ readelf -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6  | grep init_module
>     894: 00000000000f77d0    36 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   12
> init_module@@GLIBC_2.2.5
>
> But it is exported. Is this something to fix, or should finit_module
> follow this lead?

I think RPM-based distributions will have problems with the GLIBC_2.2.5 
version and generate wrong package dependencies.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team