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.

The Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) has returned to the oft-discussed topic of binary kernel modules. Considered by some to be a violation of the open source license used by the Linux kernel ...

A security module registers a set of security_operations function callbacks with the kernel by calling the function register_security (). If that fails, it means that some other security module ...

Alexei Starovoitov posted some patches to allow the kernel to load regular ELF binaries (aka plain executables) as kernel modules. These modules would be able to run user-mode helper routines instead ...

Remote code execution flaw patched in Linux Kernel TIPC module The bug was spotted within a year of introduction to the codebase.

New Linux kernel "lockdown" module to limit high-privileged users -- even root -- from tampering with some kernel functionality.

The lsmod command can tell you which kernel modules are currently loaded on your system, along with some interesting details about their use.

Once loaded, modules are identified by their base name only. A module may, and usually does, contain references to external symbols such as printk. How do these external references get resolved?

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 ...