Re: [RFC] prevention of syscalls from writable segments, breaking bug

Jeff Dike (jdike@karaya.com)
Wed, 03 Jan 2001 18:20:39 -0500

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karrde@callisto.yi.org said:
> This preliminary, small patch prevents execution of system calls which
> were executed from a writable segment. It was tested and seems to
> work, without breaking anything. It also reports of such calls by
> using printk.

Have you tried running UML on this kernel?

Jeff

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