Re: HEADS UP test11 merge.

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:24:23AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 20:40:31 +0100, 
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I needed this patch from Russel King to load xfs again (without it the module
> >loading put zeroes where support_init should be, causing a crash) 
> >This was with modutils 2.3.14.
> 
> The fact that Documentation/Changes requires modutils 2.3.18 for
> kernels >= 2.4.0-test10 has obviously escaped everybody's notice.
> You should be using modutils 2.3.21 anyway, to fix the local root
> exploit.

The code in module.c was obviously wrong anyways though, otherwise
it would be rather useless to pass the structure size in. 

I also do not care about local root exploits on my test machines.


-Andi