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James G.

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Nov 30, 1993, 9:54:26 AM11/30/93
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When is the Linux kernel going to support modules as an option that
can be set while doing a make config? It gets so annoying to have
to apply patches to each new kernel release, just to have most of it
fail because the kernel has changed so much.

Consider this my plea for module support build in to pl15, so getting
ftape to run with it will be much easier that it has been with pl13,
ALPHA pl13, and pl14.

Anyone else have feeling on this? (Linus??)

James

Richard Evans

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Nov 30, 1993, 11:13:03 AM11/30/93
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I agree! Or, how about the ftape stuff built in rather than as a loadable
module? If is it the only driver ever to use modules, there's not much
point in having them in the kernel, is there?

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Peter Dalgaard SFE

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Nov 30, 1993, 11:21:55 AM11/30/93
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In <CHB82...@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> jam...@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (James G.) writes:

>Consider this my plea for module support build in to pl15, so getting
>ftape to run with it will be much easier that it has been with pl13,
>ALPHA pl13, and pl14.

>Anyone else have feeling on this? (Linus??)

One rather obvious problem is that modules.tar represents a
security hole the size of Hudson bay. This is OK for tinkering
(especially when you're not on the net...), but for production
use it just won't do. Anyone have any idea how difficult it
would be to make a secure modules package?


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na6130400-Beuning

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Dec 1, 1993, 4:00:12 PM12/1/93
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In article <pd.754...@kubism.ku.dk> p...@kubism.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard SFE) writes:

... Anyone have any idea how difficult it


would be to make a secure modules package?

Only allow root to make the system call that loads code.

Brian

Jon Tombs

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Dec 2, 1993, 1:02:07 PM12/2/93
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This and a check to see that the kernel release and module driver release
are the same was implemented some time ago by Bas (but not yet publically
released).

Hopefully with a bit of further cleaning up modules will apear in a future
offical kernel release.

With this I'm not aware of any security or reliability problems not already
present.

- Jon.

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