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From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: RE: PERFORCE change 15626 for review
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, John Baldwin wrote:

> 
> On 06-Aug-2002 Robert Watson wrote:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/p4db/chv.cgi?CH=15626
> > 
> > Change 15626 by rwatson@rwatson_tislabs on 2002/08/06 13:00:34
> > 
> >       Introduce module dependencies to prevent MAC modules from getting
> >       loaded with a kernel that doesn't support MAC.
> >       
> >       Largely the evil of:    peter
> 
> That's not evil, that's really cool actually.

The evil in particular is that there's currently a bug in our kernel
linker where failing to link or initialize a module pre-loaded by the
loader results in a kernel panic involving the linker touching memory
after freeing it.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories



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