David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 23:36 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > No. I still don't know, why the kernel has to do this? You avoided to
> > answer this question already before.
>
> Partly to protect against accidentally-corrupted modules causing damage.
OK, so why no integrity-checking code for the kernel itself? Surely it too
could be accidentally corrupted...
--Chuck Ebbert 15-Oct-04 11:13:15
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:37:57AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> OK, so why no integrity-checking code for the kernel itself? Surely it too
> could be accidentally corrupted...
The kernel is CRC32-ed. Maybe it's part of the bzimage handling
though.
OG.