[PATCH] Add finit_module syscall for Linux

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Wed Jan 23 17:45:00 GMT 2013


On Wednesday 23 January 2013 03:36:11 Florian Weimer wrote:
> 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.

err, no
-mike
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