Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:10:18 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good |
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:34:49 +0100 David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
> Let's start a discussion if /dev/kmem is worth keeping around and > fixing/maintaining or if we should just remove it now for good.
The last time I used /dev/kmem was in 2003. While in Germany, my home firewall (in the US) got rooted. I could ssh into the box but had no way to shut it down because the rootkit took over all those commands (luckily it still allowed me to become root). I finally killed the box with:
# ls -lR / > /dev/kmem
;-)
But today I have other means of killing the box (or at least crippling it). Thus, it's obsolete in my book.
-- Steve
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