Query regarding kernel modules intercepting system call.

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Sat Jul 8 12:14:45 EDT 2017


On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 09:38:52PM +0530, Ajinkya Surnis wrote:
> Actually, this is not a college assignment. I'm a professional software
> engineer who is completely new to kernel programming.
> I recently gave an interview to one cloud security firm. The interviewer gave
> me this particular assignment, since this kind of functionality is needed in
> their software.
> Now I'm aware that the approach I have (syscall interception) is wrong.
> But I also need to find out alternate mechanism to achieve my goal.
> I searched really hard, but got nothing.

So it's a programming test to get a job?  That's worse than trying to
cheat on an exam, as it would mean that I pass the test, not you :(

good luck!

greg k-h



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