From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755646AbYEYHSy (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 03:18:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751878AbYEYHSn (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 03:18:43 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.153]:55563 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751050AbYEYHSn (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 03:18:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rwzSleAx2u1IhBvtHcv7jOI7QSpdR4S8b2tHrbm62aluFVsodtDnAH7x3v9Kutj6PUuaOESUm3cBLMbg6ATIc//U14a0YqFLJ8gtAtI7r6wfqN6vCa1eRzmLX3EiKsnGIpzgLlg5eNBKWKa0cyGtEwRNVuOsQMgNK+EmAelSfEU= Message-ID: Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 09:18:40 +0200 From: "Bart Van Assche" To: "Bosko Radivojevic" Subject: Re: Inserting code from userspace to kernel space Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Bosko Radivojevic wrote: > I'm looking for a way to insert code from user space to the kernel > space, but without using kernel module. That would create a huge security risk. The number of Linux-specific viruses is currently very limited, and I'd like to keep it that way. Are you familiar with user-space device drivers ? Bart.