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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)


  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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