Text relocations in kernel modules

Richard Yao ryao at cs.stonybrook.edu
Fri Mar 30 22:49:01 UTC 2012


On 03/30/12 18:46, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> Reread what I wrote to you. Also, it pays off learning how ELF works
> before making conclusion from the absence of the output of readelf -d.
> Amd64 modules _are not_ shared objects.

Whether or not they are shared objects is irrelevant. The fact is that
they have text relocations, which interfere with ASLR. Do I need to
produce exploit code before you take me seriously?

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