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Hi Andi, On Friday 12 August 2005 18:54, Andi Kleen wrote: > Acessing vmalloc in /dev/mem would be pretty awkward. Yes it doesn't > also work in mmap of /dev/kmem, but at least in read/write. > There are quite a lot of scripts that use it for kernel debugging > like dumping variables. And for that you really want to access modules > and vmalloc. And it's much easier to parse than /proc/kcore Perfect! So it should be under CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL and default to off. So you can still debug and we raise the bar higher for rootkits, if they are the only other user. Too simple? Regards Ingo Oeser [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | ||||||||||||
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