Re: 'lock' modules?

From: Simon Richter (Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 12:09:41 EST

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On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 buddy@r43h85.res.gatech.edu wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone has considered modifying the linux kernel such
> that the modules may be 'locked'.

Yes, there is, but since root has write access to kernel memory, it
doesn't help much. From what I've heard on bugtraq, there are module
loaders which can load modules even into a monolithic kernel.

Simon

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