On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Alan Stern wrote:
> >
> > What about loadable modules? Is their code never loaded into memory that
> > used to be part of an init section?
>
> Their code might _physically_ reside in a re-allocation of an init
> section, but will have a virtual address far away (and it would be the
> virtual address that you'd see if you took the address of a function).
and the freed init data area is poisoned (in 386, x86_64, powerpc, and
sparc64).
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~Randy
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