Cannot read from /dev/kmem

[Leszek Koltunski]

Kernel 2.6.11 , I cannot seem to be able to read from /dev/kmem... The 
following little proggie

#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>

struct {
        unsigned short limit;
        unsigned int base;
} __attribute__ ((packed)) idtr;

struct {
        unsigned short off1;
        unsigned short sel;
        unsigned char none,flags;
        unsigned short off2;
} __attribute__ ((packed)) idt;

int main()
{
        int result, kmem = open ("/dev/kmem",O_RDONLY);

        asm ("sidt %0" : "=m" (idtr));
        printf("idtr base at 0x%X\n",(int)idtr.base);

        if (kmem<0) return 1;

        if (lseek(kmem,  idtr.base + 8*0x80,SEEK_SET) != idtr.base + 
8*0x80 )
        {
                perror("kmem lseek"); exit(1);
        }

        result = read(kmem, &idt , sizeof(idt) );

        if( result != sizeof(idt) )
        {
                printf("result: %d, sizeof(idt)= %d errno=%d\n", result, 
sizeof(idt), errno);
        }

        close(kmem);

        return 0;
}



returns

utumno:/home/leszek/progs/module/hijack# ./test
idtr base at 0xC0423000
result: -1, sizeof(idt)= 8 errno=22


??? EINVAL

I remember this working on a 2.4.x kernel....

Leszek Koltunski
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