Re: How to call a function in a module from the kernel code !!! (Linux kernel)

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

On Feb 09, 2006, at 14:25, omkar lagu wrote:
> hello sir,
>
> we wanted to call a function in our module ll from shm.c file  
> (which is in the kernel)
>
> so we declared function pointer in shm.c
> unsigned long long (*ptr1)(int)
>
> we declared it as extern in shm.h
> extern unsigned long long (*ptr1)(int)
>
> then we declared also in our module  (ll)
> extern unsigned long long (*ptr1)(int)
>
> we initialized it to ptr1 = commun; in init module of ll.c where  
> commun is we wanted to call from the kernel
>
> but it gave an error as undefined refernce to ptr1 when we inserted  
> our module..
>
> can you help on this thing or can you give us a example regarding  
> how it is done ??

It would help a lot if you could post a link to your source code.   
Let me point out (in case you don't know this already) that if you do  
what you describe and distribute the result, you are automatically  
licensing your ll.c file under the GPLv2.  By distributing a  
derivative of both the Linux kernel and your proprietary module (You  
are taking Linux kernel sources and modifying them explicitly for  
your module), the result must be GPL.  Also, I think what you are  
describing is basically impossible.  I believe what you want to do is  
this:

/* in shm.c */
unsigned long long (*ptr1)(int);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ptr1);

However this makes it impossible to reliably remove your module,  
because a process could race entering the function as the module  
loader is trying to remove the module.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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