Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 20 Sep 1996 11:12:25 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: crashme crashes 2.0.20 with guarantee :-( |
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:18:52 +0300 (EET DST) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi>
Umm, you didn't run crashme as root, did you? The above certainly looks like that (bad arguments to the sys_init_module()" system call, but it should never get that far unless you're root).
Now, running crashme as root is "a bad idea". A _really_ bad idea.
True, but trying to bullet proof root from crashme as much as possible is still a good idea. Yes, we won't be able to protect against a random program which just happens to open /dev/mem and scribbles all over it. But we should be able to protect against bogus arguments to system calls....
- Ted
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