From: Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:26:38 +0200
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 10:35:12PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: "Jurzitza, Dieter" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:23:58 +0200
> >
> > > The 2.4 kernel series uses sys32_get_kernel_syms(struct kernel_sym32
> > > *table) for reading the kernel symbols (on sparc64). The size of
> > > struct kernel_sym is 64 byte on "normal" arches, but 72 byte on
> > > sparc64.
> >
> > Jurzita, you do not need to post this patch multiple times.
> > I was simply on vacation for 2 weeks right after your first
> > posting so I had no chance to review the patch.
>
> BTW, did you finally review it (no emergency at all on my side) ?
There are two problems:
1) If this goes in, similar fixes for sys_ia32.c, mips64, et al.
should go in at the same time.
2) I dislike this fix because it means that users can lock down
a significant amount of non-swappable kernel memory. There are
no privilege checks in the get_kernel_syms() system call, so
anyone can invoke it. Imagine a fork bomb invoking this, and it
could also potentially eat up nearly all of the vmalloc() space.
It may be, in the end, simply better to have a
"compat_sys_get_kernel_syms" written that can be called
so a temporary kernel copy is not needed.
I'm not offering to implement this :-) But it does seem to be the
only reasonable solution.
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