Re: LKM rootkits in 2.6.x
From: Timothy Miller
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 15:50:27 EST
Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:16:28 +0100, Christophe Saout said:
Ugh... this sounds ugly. This should be forbidden. I mean, what are
things like EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for if drivers are allowed to patch
whatever they want?
If the binary blob knows enough about the innards to be able to do binary
patching, it's a derived work and should be GPL.
Maybe!
Unless the offset of an unexported symbol relative to an exported one is
simply a "fact" which therefore can't be copyrighted.
This sort of thing would probably be unethical, but it might be legal.
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