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DateTue, 14 Aug 2007 08:12:29 +0300
FromAvi Kivity <>
SubjectRe: System call interposition/unprotecting the table
Alan Cox wrote:
> This is to protect it from being changed by an attacker or someone trying
> to do strange and bogus things to the kernel.
> 

Someone who apparently hasn't heard of vmap(), etc.

It's a debug aid at best.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

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