12.2. myinsmod
If you are feeling raw, you can insert and remove modules with our own minimal module inserter and remover!
# init_module ./linux/myinsmod.out hello.ko # finit_module ./linux/myinsmod.out hello.ko "" 1 ./linux/myrmmod.out hello
which teaches you how it is done from C code.
Source:
The Linux kernel offers two system calls for module insertion:
-
init_module -
finit_module
and:
man init_module
documents that:
The finit_module() system call is like init_module(), but reads the module to be loaded from the file descriptor fd. It is useful when the authenticity of a kernel module can be determined from its location in the filesystem; in cases where that is possible, the overhead of using cryptographically signed modules to determine the authenticity of a module can be avoided. The param_values argument is as for init_module().
finit is newer and was added only in v3.8. More rationale: https://lwn.net/Articles/519010/
Bibliography: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5947286/how-to-load-linux-kernel-modules-from-c-code