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.

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 ...

Debugging Modules Once you have UML up and running, it's time to play. I've written a very simple kernel module for testing. It uses four devices, /dev/gentest [0-3]. The module treats each device a ...

Kernel contributor Greg Kroah-Hartman promptly created a patch that would make the kernel emit a warning when a proprietary module is loaded, stating that the module would no longer function after ...

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 ...

And on May 11, 2022, NVIDIA announced the open source of kernel modules for Linux. The open source kernel module is published in the following GitHub repository.

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 ...

Without the kernel modules, you cannot start any virtual machine, even though it is possible to create one. Read: Speed up a VirtualBox Virtual Machine and make it run faster ...

SentinelOne reported the flaw to the Kernel.org team on October 19. A patch was finalized by the module's maintainers by October 21 and released on lore.kernel.org four days later.

In this installment, Abbott describes kernel modules and device drivers followed by a close look at integration of a new device driver in the kernel. Note that Elsevier is offering this and other ...