PERFORCE change 15626 for review

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Aug 20 21:00:10 GMT 2002


On 20-Aug-2002 Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 06-Aug-2002 Robert Watson wrote:
>> > http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/p4db/chv.cgi?CH=15626
>> > 
>> > Change 15626 by rwatson at rwatson_tislabs on 2002/08/06 13:00:34
>> > 
>> >       Introduce module dependencies to prevent MAC modules from getting
>> >       loaded with a kernel that doesn't support MAC.
>> >       
>> >       Largely the evil of:    peter
>> 
>> That's not evil, that's really cool actually.
> 
> The evil in particular is that there's currently a bug in our kernel
> linker where failing to link or initialize a module pre-loaded by the
> loader results in a kernel panic involving the linker touching memory
> after freeing it.

Well, yes, that is evil.

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