From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261514AbVF1UZN (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:25:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261489AbVF1UYd (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:24:33 -0400 Received: from smtp.andrew.cmu.edu ([128.2.10.83]:41865 "EHLO smtp.andrew.cmu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261422AbVF1UXF (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:23:05 -0400 From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Read only syscall tables for x86_64 and i386 References: <87oe9q70no.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <87hdfi704d.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <20050628194215.GB32240@infradead.org> <87vf3y2qzz.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <1119989463.3175.49.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:23:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1119989463.3175.49.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (Arjan van de Ven's message of "Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:11:02 +0200") Message-ID: <87mzpa2pui.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven writes: > AFS isn't even using it... after all it's not even exported. Even if it is not exported, the OpenAFS kernel module can locate the system call table using various methods. It most certainly does write to the system call table, setting entry 137, which is reserved for the afs system call, to the correct function address. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard