create_module()
attempts to create a loadable module entry and reserve the kernel memory
that will be needed to hold the module.
This system call requires privilege.
RETURN VALUE
On success, returns the kernel address at which the module will reside.
On error -1 is returned and
errno
is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EEXIST
A module by that name already exists.
EFAULT
name
is outside the program's accessible address space.
EINVAL
The requested size is too small even for the module header information.
ENOMEM
The kernel could not allocate a contiguous block of memory large
enough for the module.
ENOSYS
create_module()
is not supported in this version of the kernel.
EPERM
The caller was not privileged
(did not have the
CAP_SYS_MODULE
capability).
VERSIONS
This system call is only present on Linux up until kernel 2.4;
it was removed in Linux 2.6.
This page is part of release 3.14 of the Linux
man-pages
project.
A description of the project,
and information about reporting bugs,
can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
