Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:12:29 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: System call interposition/unprotecting the table |
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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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