[grsec] Strange output from lsmod

John Quaglieri john at interserver.net
Thu Jan 12 18:31:05 EST 2006


That output is not related to grsecurity. You'll find it only when 
Module versioning support is enabled in the Loadable module support 
section of the kernel. It attempts to make the modules possible to load 
under a different kernel version.


Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I added the grsecurity-2.1.7-patch to vanilla kernel 2.6.14.3 from
> kernel.org. After compiling, installing and booting the new kernel lsmod
> from module-init-tools displays strange things, even when all grsecurity
> features are disabled in the kernel configuration. This does not happen
> without applying the grsecurity-patch.
> 
> I attached the results of executing lsmod, one without and one with
> grsecurity. The outputs come from the same machine.
> 
> Regards
>   Christoph  
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by
> radeon                 72320  1 
> drm                    61588  2 radeon
> autofs4                18564  1 
> thermal                13576  0 
> fan                     4612  0 
> button                  6800  0 
> processor              17444  1 thermal
> ac                      4996  0 
> battery                10244  0 
> joydev                  9536  0 
> genrtc                  9480  0 
> nfs                    95020  0 
> lockd                  59944  1 nfs
> sunrpc                137028  2 nfs,lockd
> evdev                   8960  0 
> ide_cd                 39172  0 
> cdrom                  37536  1 ide_cd
> snd_intel8x0           31040  0 
> snd_ac97_codec         67448  1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_pcm_oss            48928  0 
> snd_mixer_oss          17280  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                85768  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer              24196  1 snd_pcm
> snd                    51172  6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> soundcore               9568  1 snd
> snd_page_alloc          9604  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> i2c_i801                8460  0 
> i2c_core               21648  1 i2c_i801
> intel_agp              21276  1 
> agpgart                32552  2 drm,intel_agp
> ehci_hcd               29960  0 
> uhci_hcd               30352  0 
> usbcore               110200  3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
> e100                   33792  0 
> mii                     4864  1 e100
> dm_mod                 54396  0 
> ext3                  128776  3 
> jbd                    57112  1 ext3
> mbcache                10116  1 ext3
> ide_disk               15744  5 
> piix                    9988  0 [permanent]
> ide_core              121684  3 ide_cd,ide_disk,piix
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by
> radeon                     0  0 77513 27264 1 - Live 0xe0b10000 0xe0acd000
> drm                        0  0 68658
> autofs4                    0  0 17352 1284 1 - Live 0xe0aa3000 0xe0a94000
> thermal                    0  0 12135 1416 0 - Live 0xe0aa9000 0xe0a92000
> fan                        0  0 3760 900 0 - Live 0xe0aa1000 0xe0a9f000
> button                     0  0 5651 1040 0 - Live 0xe0a96000 0xe0a6e000
> processor                  0  0 16847
> ac                         0  0 4021 900 0 - Live 0xe0a5b000 0xe0a15000
> battery                    0  0 9047 1156 0 - Live 0xe0a57000 0xe0a55000
> evdev                      0  0 8355 1152 0 - Live 0xe0a51000 0xe0a4f000
> joydev                     0  0 8104 1600 0 - Live 0xe0a4c000 0xe0a4a000
> genrtc                     0  0 8414 904 0 - Live 0xe0a19000 0xe0a17000
> nfs                        0  0 102854 3756 0 - Live 0xe0ab2000 0xe0a10000
> lockd                      0  0 57936
> nfs_acl                    0  0 3319
> sunrpc                     0  0 127585
> ide_cd                     0  0 40129 1924 0 - Live 0xe0a3f000 0xe09d2000
> cdrom                      0  0 36747
> snd_intel8x0               0  0 28110 4960 0 - Live 0xe0a00000 0xe09d6000
> snd_ac97_codec             0  0 87088
> snd_ac97_bus               0  0 1416
> snd_pcm_oss                0  0 48719 2592 0 - Live 0xe09f3000 0xe09a5000
> snd_mixer_oss              0  0 16932
> snd_pcm                    0  0 83916
> snd_timer                  0  0 23115
> snd                        0  0 52448
> soundcore                  0  0 8858
> snd_page_alloc             0  0 10154
> i2c_i801                   0  0 7343 1676 0 - Live 0xe097d000 0xe0893000
> i2c_core                   0  0 20441
> generic                    0  0 2627
> intel_agp                  0  0 19527 3100 1 - Live 0xe0954000 0xe088f000
> agpgart                    0  0 33966
> ehci_hcd                   0  0 31187 776 0 - Live 0xe0942000 0xe0857000
> uhci_hcd                   0  0 31216 1040 0 - Live 0xe0886000 0xe0828000
> usbcore                    0  0 113843
> e100                       0  0 34074 2176 0 - Live 0xe087c000 0xe0820000
> mii                        0  0 4865
> dm_mod                     0  0 55591 2620 0 - Live 0xe086d000 0xe0814000
> ext3                       0  0 133560 2440 3 - Live 0xe0895000 0xe0812000
> jbd                        0  0 54368
> mbcache                    0  0 9112
> ide_disk                   0  0 16531 896 5 - Live 0xe0816000 0xe0808000
> piix                       0  0 7833
> ide_core                   0  0 105614
> 
> 
> 
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John Quaglieri
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