Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 11 Nov 2000 22:48:16 +0100 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI) |
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On 2000-11-10T19:12:29, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> said:
> Great! Are you thinking about putting the crash dumper and the raw > write disk routines in a separate text section, so they can be located > in pages which are write-protected from accidental modification in case > some kernel code goes wild? (Who me? Paranoid? :-)
I would also suggest to have a little checksum over the relevant pages, to verify that the code is still correct and we are not going to crashdump all over our valuable data...
And I am still very fond of the idea of crash dumping to a network server ;-)
Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de> Development HA
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