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On 8/13/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 09:35 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote:> > >> > > Found the problem. It is a bug with mmap_kmem. The order of checks is > > > wrong, so here's the patch. Attached is a little program that reads the > > > System map looking for the variable modprobe_path. If it finds it, then > > > it opens /dev/kmem for read only and mmaping it to read the contents of > > > modprobe_path.> >> > I'm actually more inclined to try to deprecate /dev/kmem.. I don't think > > anybody has ever really used it except for some rootkits. It only exists > > in the first place because it's historical.> >> > We do need to support /dev/mem for X, but even that might go away some > > day.> >> > So I'd be perfectly happy to fix this, but I'd be even happier if we made > > the whole kmem thing a config variable (maybe even default it to "off").> I believe rootkit detectors, as well as some versions of ps (wchan field) use kmem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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