Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Aug 2003 22:45:16 +0200 | From | bert hubert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Allow /dev/{,k}mem to be disabled to prevent kernel from being modified easily |
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On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:32:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl> wrote: > > > > +#if defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_ACCESS) > > {1, "mem", S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP, &mem_fops}, > > {2, "kmem", S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP, &kmem_fops}, > > +#endif > > Well if you're going to do this, wouldn't it be better to force a segv and > drop some messages in syslog?
problem with sigsegv is that it does not allow legitimate programs to choose an alternate approach - the log entry would be nice though.
as one of the 'tastemasters', what are your thoughts on doing this dynamically? The sigsegv option might be a dynamic option?
Thanks.
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