The kernel, however, including modules, has no such restriction. That can make debugging modules tricky because you can easily bring the system to its knees.

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The Linux kernel is a monolithic kernel. It’s mainly one large program, but it closely interacts with other, distinct, programs such as drivers and kernel modules.

As impossible as this may sound, it actually is quite simple to do using the power of Linux kernel modules and Netfilter. Netfilter is a packet filtering subsystem in the Linux kernel stack and has ...

This includes such things as whenever an inode is accessed, a module is loaded or a task is created. As of the 2.5.31 kernel, there were 88 different function pointers needed. The majority of these ...

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 ...

LKRG kernel modules are currently available for main Linux distros such as RHEL7, OpenVZ 7, Virtuozzo 7, and Ubuntu 16.04 to latest mainlines. Not a perfect solution ...

As is so often the case, a notable change in an upcoming Linux kernel is both historic and no big deal. If you wanted to use "Real-Time Linux" for your audio gear, your industrial welding laser ...

The goal is for Google to fork the Linux kernel once for Android, instead of three times, and give SoC and device manufacturers space for their customizations via plug-in modules.