Re: [PATCH] LSM: add static to security_ops variable

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Fri Feb 19 2010 - 07:27:21 EST


On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:23 PM, wzt wzt <wzt.wzt@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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