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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: wzt wzt <wzt.wzt@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sds@tycho.nsa.gov,
	jmorris@namei.org, eparis@parisplace.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LSM: add static to security_ops variable
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:27:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6fcc0a1002190427k735dc6a8ha88cb79b4d333c3e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <628d1651002190423s4590bbc5x2eeff6792619f591@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:23 PM, wzt wzt <wzt.wzt@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's not a barrier, it's garbage. Once you know the adress security_ops
>> ended up at, you simply write to it.
>
> How to find the security_ops address if the variable is static? Would
> you please make an example?

See /proc/kallsyms .

>> Not that easily, but they still can.
> That's why i suggest to make the variable to static, if you had wrote
> a rootkit, you will find that in kernel 2.4.x, there are many many
> rootkits, but in kernel 2.6.x, rootkit became fewer. Not all the
> kernel driver writers can master this method to find the variable's
> address.

Please.

> The patch also delete the secondary_ops variable.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-19 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-07 11:24 wzt wzt
2010-02-07 14:14 ` Greg KH
2010-02-16 14:57 ` Stephen Smalley
2010-02-19 11:40   ` wzt wzt
2010-02-19 13:47     ` Stephen Smalley
2010-02-19 11:44 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-19 11:57   ` wzt wzt
2010-02-19 12:02     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-19 12:23       ` wzt wzt
2010-02-19 12:27         ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2010-02-19 13:14           ` wzt wzt
2010-02-19 13:12         ` Bernd Petrovitsch

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