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From: Patrick Doyle <wpdster@gmail.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] How can I compile a module into the kernel?
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 13:20:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF_dkJD1hZ0+8=+j64dMffDULsfG1DufDU8po4zm8VxAfdh0dA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181021095548.41d5f0b9@windsurf.lan>

On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 3:55 AM Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 19:27:05 -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> > For security reasons, I would like to disable loadable modules in my
> > kernel.
> > What I would really like to do is to tell buildroot and/or the kernel
> > "Link this external module into the kernel at link time, not at
> > runtime".
>
> You simply can't do that: external modules can only be built as
> modules.
Thank you Thomas.
Yeah, that's what I was finding as well, but I thought I should ask nonetheless.

Is it possible to permanently disable loadable modules from user space
at runtime?  Or to only load signed modules?  Or do I need to look
more carefully at selinux?

Any thoughts?

Thanks again.

--wpd

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-21 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-20 23:27 [Buildroot] How can I compile a module into the kernel? Patrick Doyle
2018-10-21  7:55 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-10-21 17:20   ` Patrick Doyle [this message]
2018-10-21 17:33     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-10-21 17:47       ` Baruch Siach
2018-10-22  0:56         ` Patrick Doyle

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