From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965811AbXHaROg (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:14:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965394AbXHaRO3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:14:29 -0400 Received: from web52005.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.49.252]:38587 "HELO web52005.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965379AbXHaRO2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:14:28 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=RctOGADX9MJbUmxe8qNLcZTo+SVBX46smfhUCdtjOWrJ0qzTaFDKAD44Cdu4Qd2JCPWIRJV09m88jvGLltRPgHw7J0xltOEVzvAnjtS1vYjckaWTFz1kPfwBfw0TDk/FBJG7HqmlOATKYvOINt5NwtUzuMSwG9Q/KTPsntFy4Lc=; X-YMail-OSG: t4st7ZQVM1mjwWAwKbuXEzsV6oaV9hD0RbseSD444f1DJJpZxJMZnMGAgAs2MWBnDpoEKBgnl1mVKlXBB8r43vMVguvMKcLIeysD5uiXsOssmuV80bfMnj5nwthpxw-- X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/651.50 YahooMailWebService/0.7.134 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:14:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Matti Linnanvuori Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8957] New: Exported functions and variables To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: bugme-daemon@kernel-bugs.osdl.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <116718.45429.qm@web52005.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org It seems to me that kernel/module.c allows the whole kernel to use exported symbols during the execution of the init function if they are weak: /* Ok if weak. */ if (ELF_ST_BIND(sym[i].st_info) == STB_WEAK) break; That seems a possible way to produce the scenario of this so-called bug. ________ Yahoo! Clever: Stellen Sie Fragen und finden Sie Antworten. Teilen Sie Ihr Wissen. www.yahoo.de/clever