On Feb 3 2007 08:14, Russell King wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 03:08:14AM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
>> This patch changes the module license handling code to:
>> - prevent the "GPL\0 for nothing"-trick
>
>You can achieve this effect without changing the existing module
>format, and it's far more difficult to bypass with build-with-
>modified module.h tricks.
>
>+static int check_modinfo_objects(Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
>+ unsigned int symindex,
>+ unsigned int infoindex)
>+{
>+ unsigned int i;
>+ Elf_Sym *sym = (void *)sechdrs[symindex].sh_addr;
>+ char *info = (char *)sechdrs[infoindex].sh_addr;
>+
>+ for (i = 1; i < sechdrs[symindex].sh_size/sizeof(*sym); i++) {
>+ if (sym[i].st_shndx == infoindex &&
>+ ELF_ST_TYPE(sym[i].st_info) == STT_OBJECT) {
>+ if (strlen(info + sym[i].st_value) + 1 !=
>sym[i].st_size)
>+ return -ENOEXEC;
>+ }
>+ }
What happens when there is no symbol for the "license=GPL\0foo..." string?
To me it looks like we'll miss it.
Jan
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