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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:27:46 -0800
From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Prevent overriding of Symbols in the Kernel, avoiding Undefined behaviour
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:13:22AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Do we really need to do this at runtime?

Probably.  One could consider this a security hole...


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