Re: Fwd: [RFC][PATCH] Prevent overriding of Symbols in the Kernel, avoiding Undefined behaviour

["Anand H. Krishnan" <anandhkrishnan@yahoo.co.in>]

Hi,

>
> 
> Hi,
>         The check for exportsym not being NULL is
> redundant, since
> mod->num_syms will be 0 in that case.  The cast is
> also redundant.  You
> have two identical failure cases at the bottom. 

All true and will be changed.

> your use of index
> is convoluted: do it after relocations.
> 

Though rare, we will have the extra overhead of
relocations before we fail the loading of the m
odule [with the advantage of a cleaner code]. I
s that OK ?



Thanks,
Anand



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