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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020401 Description of problem: a patch in the kernel src rpm called linux-2.4.1-compilefailure.patch removes the "EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_call_table);" line from linux/kernel/ksyms.c and prevents sys_call_table from being exported properly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. make module that calls "extern void *sys_call_table[];" 2. try to insert module Actual Results: unresolved symbol sys_call_table Expected Results: the module should have inserted Additional info: removing the following lines from linux-2.4.1-compilefailure.patch and recompiling the kernel fixes the problem: <SNIP> --- linux/kernel/ksyms.c~ Sat Mar 23 19:10:44 2002 +++ linux/kernel/ksyms.c Sun Mar 24 19:14:52 2002 @@ -499,9 +499,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_strtoull); EXPORT_SYMBOL(system_utsname); /* UTS data */ EXPORT_SYMBOL(uts_sem); /* UTS semaphore */ -#ifndef __mips__ -EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_call_table); -#endif EXPORT_SYMBOL(machine_restart); EXPORT_SYMBOL(machine_halt); EXPORT_SYMBOL(machine_power_off); </SNIP>
sys_call_table is not allowed to be modified in modules. Ever. Period. If the code is doing that the code should be printed, taken outside and burned. (So question: what is this code ?) And for CALLING system calls... all system calls are properly EXPORT_SYMBOL()'d and have a proper prototype, which is a LOT better than randomly calling a function pointer of the wrong type.
the code that is doing it is Bproc http://bproc.sourceforge.net it's a Beowulf distributed process space, I'm sure that it could probably be fixed in bproc itself, haven't looked too deep into that yet, but I will investigate. Anyways I just thought that if it worked in my vanilla 2.4.18 kernel it should have worked in the redhat kernel.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75299 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.