From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about /dev/mem and /dev/kmem
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:04:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101715470.2814.30.camel@laptop.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41AA9E26.4070105@verizon.net>
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 22:57 -0500, Jim Nelson wrote:
> I was looking at some articles about rootkits on monolithic kernels, and had a
> thought. Would a kernel config option to disable write access to /dev/mem and
> /dev/kmem be a workable idea?
look at the -mm patch series ;-)
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc2/2.6.10-rc2-mm3/broken-out/dev-mem-restriction-patch.patch
(fwiw this patch is also in the Fedora Core kernels for quite some time
now)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-29 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-29 3:57 Jim Nelson
2004-11-29 4:45 ` Matan Peled
2004-11-29 8:04 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-11-29 9:39 ` Wichert Akkerman
2004-11-29 10:47 ` Jim Nelson
2004-11-29 11:45 ` Alan Cox
2004-11-29 12:36 ` Wichert Akkerman
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