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Re: 034_modules_seq.diff



On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 02:22:45PM +0200, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I maintain the kernel-patch-grsecurity2 package in Debian. This patch
> is for vanilla kernel, but as some users requested, I would like to make
> it work with Debian kernels as well. I could do it 99%, but
> fs/proc/proc_misc.c really different in a vanilla kernel, and thus I can
> not merge grsecurity2 into it. Can someone help me why
> patches/034_modules_seq.diff is necessary, where it came from, where can
> I read more about how it works, etc?

It's nessecary so that /proc/modules can't display more than PAGE_SIZE
worth of information.  This happens quite often when people use e.g.
alsa and netfilter.



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