Re: Future Linux devel. Kernels

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun May 07 2000 - 12:11:21 EST


> > Enable Kernel Module signatures so any foriegn kernel modules will be
> > refused. (to avoid Kernel Module hacking).
>
> Not practical (unless you break the X server by disallowing /dev/kmem
> and ioports access)

The infrastructure for most of this is present, but it would mean running
with no CAP for raw I/O and that would give several people interesting
restrictions.

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