Re: [PATCH 3/3] Assert notifier_block and notifier_call are not ininit section

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Alan Stern wrote:
> > 
> > What about loadable modules?  Is their code never loaded into memory that
> > used to be part of an init section?
> 
> Their code might _physically_ reside in a re-allocation of an init 
> section, but will have a virtual address far away (and it would be the 
> virtual address that you'd see if you took the address of a function).

and the freed init data area is poisoned (in 386, x86_64, powerpc, and
sparc64).

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~Randy
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