Re: access_ok inside kernelspace
Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.COM)
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:36:36 +0100 (BST)
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
> I don't understand this. A module is linked into the running kernel, and
> has access to all of it AFAIU, so I can't see any need for this contortion
> for modules. Maybe I'm just plain blind today...
The kernel only has access to symbols which base kernel chose to export
(kernel/ksyms.c and arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c). However, you are not
blind and neither was I - just slightly short-sighted :)
I forgot about the well-known fact that sys_call_table[] is exported so
modules should call sys_XXX() functions indirectly via sys_call_table[].
I even wrote a little module ages ago that is based solely on this simple
fact.
Regards,
Tigran.
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