Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:54:36 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] Assert notifier_block and notifier_call are not in init section |
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > What about loadable modules? Is their code never loaded into memory that > > used to be part of an init section? > > Their code might _physically_ reside in a re-allocation of an init > section, but will have a virtual address far away (and it would be the > virtual address that you'd see if you took the address of a function).
and the freed init data area is poisoned (in 386, x86_64, powerpc, and sparc64).
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