After loading a module with more than 128 exported symbols (say
sound.o), all other insmods fail with "QM_SYMBOL: bad address".
qm_symbols gives a premature -EFAULT if the buffer is too small,
instead of telling the caller how big the buffer should be.
--- linux/kernel/module.c.orig Wed Jan 15 16:20:35 1997
+++ linux/kernel/module.c Fri Jan 17 12:30:29 1997
@@ -528,14 +528,14 @@
space = mod->nsyms * 2*sizeof(void *);
- if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, buf, space))
- return -EFAULT;
-
i = len = 0;
s = mod->syms;
if (space > bufsize)
goto calc_space_needed;
+
+ if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, buf, space))
+ return -EFAULT;
bufsize -= space;
vals = (unsigned long *)buf;