Updating the correct email id of Anand Krishnan
Signed-off-by: Anand Krishnan <[email protected]>
On 12/12/05, Ashutosh Naik <[email protected]> wrote:
> This patch is the next logical step after the following two threads
>
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0511.2/2505.html
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0511.3/0036.html
>
> When a symbol is exported from the kernel, and say, a module would
> export the same symbol, there currently exists no mechanism to prevent
> the module from exporting this symbol. The module would still go ahead
> and export the symbol, the symbol table would now contain two copies
> of the exported symbol, and hell would break loose.
>
> This patch prevents that from happening, by checking the symbol table
> before relocation for all occurences of the Exported Symbol. If the
> symbol already exists, we branch out with -ENOEXEC. Currently, this
> search is sequential.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Naik <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Anand Krishnan <[email protected]>
>
>
>
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