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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Zoltan.Menyhart@bull.net
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dynamic System Calls & System Call Hijacking
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:40:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040420194016.GF1413@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4084E85E.4722BFC6@nospam.org>

Hi!

> - Can't recompile the kernel, otherwise you gonna lose RedHat guarantee ?
>   Or some ISVs like whose name starts with an "O" and terminates with "racle"
>   ain't gonna support it ?
 
>   + No problem, I'll load your syscall in a module.

Well, by forcing syscall in, you loose your guarantee, too.
cat /dev/urandom > /dev/kmem

"RedHat, help, my machine crashed."


> Your remarks will be appreciated.

I hope it at least taints the kernel.

And you did test on smp kernel, trying to race syscall calling against
your module load/unload, right?

-- 
64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms         


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-22 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-20  9:07 Dynamic System Calls & System Call Hijacking Zoltan Menyhart
2004-04-20 19:40 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-04-23 11:48   ` Zoltan Menyhart

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