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SubjectRe: [PATCH] paravirt.h
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On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 14:56 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Iau, 2006-08-10 am 11:06 -0700, ysgrifennodd Jeremy Fitzhardinge:
> > Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(paravirt_ops);
> > >
> > This should probably be EXPORT_SYMBOL(), otherwise pretty much every
> > driver module will need to be GPL...
>
> It would be nice not to export it at all or to protect it, paravirt_ops
> is a rootkit authors dream ticket. I'm opposed to paravirt_ops until it
> is properly protected, its an unpleasantly large security target if not.
>
> It would be a lot safer if we could have the struct paravirt_ops in
> protected read-only const memory space, set it up in the core kernel
> early on in boot when we play "guess todays hypervisor" and then make
> sure it stays in read only (even to kernel) space.

this would need a "const after boot" section; which is really not hard
to make and probably useful for a lot more things.... todo++


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