Re: [PATCH] module locking

Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher (dent@cosy.sbg.ac.at)
Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:21:36 +0200 (MET DST)


On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Rolf Fokkens wrote:

> This patch adds the option op locking module operations, which
> means that no more insmod en rmmod operations are possible. This
> hopefully satisfies some security requirements that state that no
> modularized kernels should be used to be really safe in some
> environents.

you're describing exactly the bahaviour or using capabilities.
see the capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE) calls you removed with your patch.

tm

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