Loading Arbitrary Executables as Kernel Modules

Posted by bob on Jun 4, 2018 10:53 PM EDT
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Alexei Starovoitov posted some patches to allow the kernel to load regular ELF binaries (aka plain executables) as kernel modules. These modules would be able to run user-mode helper routines instead of being absolutely confined to kernel space.

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