go-modprobe

Load an unload Linux kernel modules using the Linux module syscalls.

This package is Linux specific. Loading a module uses the finit variant, which allows loading of modules by a file descriptor, rather than having to load an ELF into the process memory before loading.

The ability to load and unload modules is dependent on either the CAP_SYS_MODULE capability, or running as root. Care should be taken to understand what security implications this has on processes that use this library.

Setting the capability on a binary using this package

$ sudo setcap cap_sys_module+ep /path/to/binary