Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Two fixes for 2.4.19-pre5-ac3 | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 07 Apr 2002 14:10:42 -0600 |
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John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:49:17PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Removing it in the -ac tree is a good way to stimulate discussion > > OK > > > fixing the code that relies on it (except for the 99% of code relying on it > > which is cracker authored trojans) > > No doubt, but it's not much harder to look at nm vmlinux or System.map, > so I don't see the security angle... > > I'd be happy to bear the brunt of users moaning at me because they now > have to apply a kernel patch (and I have to maintain it ...), iff there > was some strongly technical reason the code has to change.
Deep technical reason there are architectures where patching the system call table does not work.
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