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

From: Jeff Dike (jdike@karaya.com)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 18:20:39 EST


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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