Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [patch] Add basic sanity checks to the syscall execution patch | | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | | Date | Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:57:11 +1000 | |
> and that'd be because at the same time they patch the syscall table (remember,
> they already have to go to length to get around the read-only pages), they
> can't also patch this 'protection'? sounds really plausible, right :).
> > [fixed hpa's address, .org bounces.]
Sure, they can :-)
It's just an idea I had on irc but I tend to agree that it wouldn't have
much effect in practice... regarding security, it will break some
existing rootkits ... until updated ones show up.
Cheers,
Ben.
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