Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export.

From: Werner Almesberger (wa@almesberger.net)
Date: Sat May 10 2003 - 13:26:27 EST


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> The only solution for this is to check/audit/log things after the ONE
> copy. Eg not by overriding the syscall but inside the syscall.

Well, not exactly the _only_ one. Inferior alternatives include

 - tracking all user memory accesses, and protecting those pages
   against modifications by other processes (but this adds a
   deadlock risk)

 - like above, but copy all such data to/from a user space area
   that is then protected

 - like above, but use kernel space instead, then use
   set_fs(KERNEL_DS)

Which probably just proves that there are always more painful ways
to do things :-)

- Werner

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