[PATCH] Harden Samba module functions

[Volker Lendecke]

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 11:15:42AM +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 11:03:03 CEST Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:48:09AM +0200, Andreas Schneider via samba-
> technical wrote:
> > > > The same here, why do we need to skip loading the module depending on
> > > > a specific name at all, I'd like to avoid a having this code at all.
> > > 
> > > If the module is in the modules directory, smbd automatically loads it ...
> > 
> > Can't you change the dummy module to be less harmful, so that it can
> > be loaded?
> 
> If you have a better idea how to fail if the module gets loaded ...

Can you describe the bigger picture? Do you need to test the failure
paths for module initialization failure?

Thanks,

Volker

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