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.TH QUERY_MODULE 2 2017-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"

.SH NAME

query_module \- query the kernel for various bits pertaining to modules

.SH SYNOPSIS

.nf

.B #include <linux/module.h>

.PP

.BI "int query_module(const char *" name ", int " which ", void *" buf ,

.BI "                 size_t " bufsize ", size_t *" ret );

.fi

.PP

.IR Note :

No declaration of this system call is provided in glibc headers; see NOTES.

.SH DESCRIPTION

.IR Note :

This system call is present only in kernels before Linux 2.6.

.PP

.BR query_module ()

requests information from the kernel about loadable modules.

The returned information is placed in the buffer pointed to by

.IR buf .

The caller must specify the size of

.I buf

in

.IR bufsize .

The precise nature and format of the returned information

depend on the operation specified by

.IR which .

Some operations require

.I name

to identify a currently loaded module, some allow

.I name

to be NULL, indicating the kernel proper.

.PP

The following values can be specified for

.IR which :

.TP

.B 0

Returns success, if the kernel supports

.BR query_module ().

Used to probe for availability of the system call.

.TP

.B QM_MODULES

Returns the names of all loaded modules.

The returned buffer consists of a sequence of null-terminated strings;

.I ret

is set to the number of

modules.

.\" ret is set on ENOSPC

.TP

.B QM_DEPS

Returns the names of all modules used by the indicated module.

The returned buffer consists of a sequence of null-terminated strings;

.I ret

is set to the number of modules.

.\" ret is set on ENOSPC

.TP

.B QM_REFS

Returns the names of all modules using the indicated module.

This is the inverse of

.BR QM_DEPS .

The returned buffer consists of a sequence of null-terminated strings;

.I ret

is set to the number of modules.

.\" ret is set on ENOSPC

.TP

.B QM_SYMBOLS

Returns the symbols and values exported by the kernel or the indicated

module.

The returned buffer is an array of structures of the following form

.\" ret is set on ENOSPC

.IP

.in +4n

.EX

struct module_symbol {

    unsigned long value;

    unsigned long name;

};

.EE

.in

.IP

followed by null-terminated strings.

The value of

.I name

is the character offset of the string relative to the start of

.IR buf ;

.I ret

is set to the number of symbols.

.TP

.B QM_INFO

Returns miscellaneous information about the indicated module.

The output buffer format is:

.IP

.in +4n

.EX

struct module_info {

    unsigned long address;

    unsigned long size;

    unsigned long flags;

};

.EE

.in

.IP

where

.I address

is the kernel address at which the module resides,

.I size

is the size of the module in bytes, and

.I flags

is a mask of

.BR MOD_RUNNING ,

.BR MOD_AUTOCLEAN ,

and so on, that indicates the current status of the module

(see the Linux kernel source file

.IR include/linux/module.h ).

.I ret

is set to the size of the

.I module_info

structure.

.SH RETURN VALUE

On success, zero is returned.

On error, \-1 is returned and

.I errno

is set appropriately.

.SH ERRORS

.TP

.B EFAULT

At least one of

.IR name ,

.IR buf ,

or

.I ret

was outside the program's accessible address space.

.TP

.B EINVAL

Invalid

.IR which ;

or

.I name

is NULL (indicating "the kernel"),

but this is not permitted with the specified value of

.IR which .

.\" Not permitted with QM_DEPS, QM_REFS, or QM_INFO.

.TP

.B ENOENT

No module by that

.I name

exists.

.TP

.B ENOSPC

The buffer size provided was too small.

.I ret

is set to the minimum size needed.

.TP

.B ENOSYS

.BR query_module ()

is not supported in this version of the kernel

(e.g., the kernel is version 2.6 or later).

.SH VERSIONS

This system call is present on Linux only up until kernel 2.4;

it was removed in Linux 2.6.

.\" Removed in Linux 2.5.48

.SH CONFORMING TO

.BR query_module ()

is Linux-specific.

.SH NOTES

Some of the information that was formerly available via

.BR query_module ()

can be obtained from

.IR /proc/modules ,

.IR /proc/kallsyms ,

and the files under the directory

.IR /sys/module .

.PP

The

.BR query_module ()

system call is not supported by glibc.

No declaration is provided in glibc headers, but,

through a quirk of history, glibc does export an ABI for this system call.

Therefore, in order to employ this system call,

it is sufficient to manually declare the interface in your code;

alternatively, you can invoke the system call using

.BR syscall (2).

.SH SEE ALSO

.BR create_module (2),

.BR delete_module (2),

.BR get_kernel_syms (2),

.BR init_module (2),

.BR lsmod (8),

.BR modinfo (8)

.SH COLOPHON

This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux

.I man-pages

project.

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information about reporting bugs,

and the latest version of this page,

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