linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: add syscall to load module from fd

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Message-ID: <5074A0AB.8040207@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:09:47 +0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	mtk.manpages@...il.com
CC:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: add syscall to load module from fd

On 10/10/2012 06:03 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Good point. A "whole hog" openat()-style interface is worth thinking about too.

*Although* you could argue that you can always simply open the module
file first, and that finit_module() is really what we should have had in
the first place.  Then you don't need the flags since those would come
from openat().

	-hpa


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