Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] module: Add module name to modinfo

[Jon Masters]

On 04/21/2017 06:35 PM, Kees Cook wrote:

> Accessing the mod structure (e.g. for mod->name) prior to having completed
> check_modstruct_version() can result in writing garbage to the error logs
> if the layout of the mod structure loaded from disk doesn't match the
> running kernel's mod structure layout. This kind of mismatch will become
> much more likely if a kernel is built with different randomization seed
> for the struct layout randomization plugin.
> 
> Instead, add and use a new modinfo string for logging the module name.

+Lucas - probably something that the modinfo kmod utility should track.

Jon.