Re: System call interposition/unprotecting the table

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Tue Aug 14 2007 - 01:13:08 EST


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.

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Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

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