Re: System call interposition/unprotecting the table

[James Morris]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Avi Kivity wrote:

> 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.

It clarifies to all developers that the syscall table should not be messed 
with.


- James
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