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2008 Sep 30
1
DTrace MFC broke kldstat(2) on RELENG_7
...) of data to user space while it should copy sizeof(struct
kld_file_stat_1) when the old struct is used.
This guy is probably suffering from this problem too:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-September/182896.html
I used this patch to fix the problem:
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Index: sys/kern/kern_linker.c
===================================================================
--- sys/kern/kern_linker.c (revision 183486)
+++ sys/kern/kern_linker.c (working copy)
@@ -1199,7 +1199,12 @@ kldstat(struct thread *td, struct kldsta
td->td_retval[0] = 0;
- return (copyout(&stat, uap->stat, si...
2004 Sep 29
5
Kernel-loadable Root Kits
...d(2) syscall,
>>>nothing more, nothing userspace-magical.
>>>All a kernel routine needs to do is either invoke that syscall, or
>>>call the internal kernel functions that kldload(2) calls, like e.g.
>>>linker_find_file_by_name() and linker_load_file() in sys/kern/kern_linker.c
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>>Ah. Well then, as I wrote to Kris, the kernel has to deny KLD loading
>>altogether, it should be a build-time option, and it should have nothing
>>to over-ride this.
>>
>>Or am I still being too simplistic? I haven't been using KLD- or LKM-
>>a...