Re: [PATCH] Re: export of sys_call_table

[Brian F. G. Bidulock]

Petr,

Thanks you for the constructive suggestions.  I'll see if we
can add those in an test it up.

--brian

On Wed, 09 Oct 2002, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> On  8 Oct 02 at 18:21, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
> > --- kernel/sys.c.orig   2002-08-02 19:39:46.000000000 -0500
> > +++ kernel/sys.c    2002-10-08 16:46:55.000000000 -0500
> ...
> 
> I believe that you should check that nobody else has registered its
> own streams module. You can also allow for multiple streams modules
> in parallel (and fall through when module returns on -ENOIOCTLCMD or -ENOTTY),
> but I believe that usually only one module will be registered.
> 
> And I believe that export symbols should NOT be _GPL_ONLY: before
> (non-GPL) export of syscall_table was available, non-GPL modules were
> able to hook syscalls, and when _GPL_ONLY was introduced into kernel
> it was promised that we'll never make currently provided functionality
> GPL-only (as far as I remember).
>                                                     Best regards,
>                                                         Petr Vandrovec
>                                                         
> int register_streams_calls(...)
> > +void register_streams_calls(int (*putpmsg) (int, void *, void *, int, int),
> > +               int (*getpmsg) (int, void *, void *, int, int))
> > +{
> 
> int err;
> if (!putpmsg || !getpmsg) return -EINVAL;
> 
> > +   down_write(&streams_call_sem);
> 
> err = -EBUSY;
> if (!do_putpmsg) {
>   err = 0;
> 
> > +   do_putpmsg = putpmsg;
> > +   do_getpmsg = getpmsg;
> 
> }
> 
> > +   up_write(&streams_call_sem);
> 
> return err;
> 
> > +}
> > +
> > +void unregister_streams_calls(void)
> > +{
> 
>    down_write(&streams_call_sem);
>    do_putpmsg = NULL;
>    do_getpmsg = NULL;
>    up_write(&streams_call_sem);
> }
>     

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