Le 01/13/17 à 09:00, Yousong Zhou a écrit :
> Aliases are essential information for working with kernel modules. Netfilter
> subsystem will request for ipt_hashlimit and ip6t_hashlimit respectively when
> called with
>
> xt_request_find_match(NFPROTO_IPV{4,6}, "hashlimit", 1)
>
> The kernel __request_module() will then invoke user mode modprobe to load them
>
> /sbin/modprobe -q -- ipt_hashlimit
> /sbin/modprobe -q -- ip6t_hashlimit
>
> where ipt_hashlimit and ip6t_hashlimit are aliases of xt_hashlimit
>
> The patch depends on another patch in the build system to restore alias info
> to kernel modules.
FWIW:
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
>
> v2 <- v1
>
> - Fixed a missing pair of curly parenthesis after avl_for_each_element, and
> this time the code was checked okay with -Wmisleading-indentation
> - Dropped the now redundant argc < 2 check in load_modprobe()
>
> Yousong Zhou (6):
> kmodloader: remove redundant glob wildcard char
> kmodloader: log to kmsg when loading directories of modules
> kmodloader: modprobe: skip possible command line arguments
> kmodloader: fix out-of-bound access when parsing .modinfo
> kmodloader: add module alias awareness
> kmodloader: make insert_module() idempotent
>
> kmodloader.c | 184
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 153 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
--
Florian
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