For example, you probably don’t want to put drivers for every single known video card in your kernel. But it is perfectly fine to build dozens or hundreds of modules you might need and then load ...

Our example uses the 2.5.31 kernel release, which contains enough of the LSM interface for us to create a useful module. In our module, we want to prevent any programs with the group ID of 0 (root) ...

In this second excerpt, Abbott discusses kernel modules and device drivers. In Part 1 of this excerpt the author worked through an example of a simple kernel module. In this installment, Abbott ...

README Linux Kernel Module Tutorial Series This repository contains a series of example Linux Kernel Modules designed for learning and practicing Linux Kernel development. Each module demonstrates a ...

I will discuss some of the fun things you can do by altering and wrapping system calls a little later, but let us first get our hands dirty with an example kernel module. This is a simple example, ...

New Linux kernel "lockdown" module to limit high-privileged users -- even root -- from tampering with some kernel functionality. Written by Catalin Cimpanu, Contributor Sept. 29, 2019 at 4:24 p.m. PT ...

A patch was finalized by the module's maintainers by October 21 and released on lore.kernel.org four days later. The fix has now also been added to the mainline repository, released on October 29 ...

Our objective in this chapter is to introduce the basics of Linux device drivers. We’ll begin with the concept of installable kernel modules. Then we’ll look at the basic device driver APIs in the ...