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...) 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: %%% 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, size...

...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 >> >>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- >>awa...