disable module support in kernel

Kevin Wilson wkevils at gmail.com
Fri Dec 27 09:28:24 EST 2013


Hi,
What do you mean by changing kernel.spec? are you building it with
rpmbuild ? can you describe how you are trying to build it ?

KW

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Andy Johnson <johnsonzjo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Laxmi,
> How exactly do you try to disable it?  do you set CONFIG_MODULES to N?
>  which error do you get in compile ? can you please post it here ?
>
> regards,
> Rami Rosen
> http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Laxmi Meena <laxmicair at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As part of hardening of kernel, I want to disable module support. so that in
>> the server dynamic loading of module is not supported. Otherwise it is
>> possible to create malicious modules and load it.
>> When i try to disable the module support.I am not able to compile the
>> kernel.
>>
>> Do I need to make changes in kernel.spec file.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
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