Re: [RFC][PATCH] Prevent overriding of Symbols in the Kernel, avoiding Undefined behaviour

[Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com>]

Updating the correct email id of Anand Krishnan
Signed-off-by: Anand Krishnan <anandhkrishnan@yahoo.co.in>

On 12/12/05, Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch is the next logical step after the following two  threads
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> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0511.2/2505.html
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0511.3/0036.html
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> When a symbol is exported from the kernel, and say, a module would
> export the same symbol, there currently exists no mechanism to prevent
> the module from exporting this symbol. The module would still go ahead
> and export the symbol, the symbol table would now contain two copies
> of the exported symbol, and hell would break loose.
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> This patch prevents that from happening, by checking the symbol table
> before relocation for all occurences of the Exported Symbol. If the
> symbol already exists, we branch out with -ENOEXEC. Currently, this
> search is sequential.
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> Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anand Krishnan <anandhkrishnan@yahoo.com>
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