Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:20:20 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Prevent overriding of Symbols in the Kernel, avoiding Undefined behaviour |
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:27:46AM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:13:22AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Do we really need to do this at runtime? > > Probably. One could consider this a security hole...
Huh? You are root and loading a kernel module. You can do much worse things at this point in time than messing around with existing symbols :)
I think it should be a build-time thing if possible.
thanks,
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