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.
