Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261680AbUCKTaz (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:30:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261668AbUCKTaz (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:30:55 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cirt.vt.edu ([128.173.54.129]:33921 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261681AbUCKTaZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:30:25 -0500 Message-Id: <200403111930.i2BJU9oh004246@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: Christophe Saout Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LKM rootkits in 2.6.x In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:16:28 +0100." <1079032587.7517.1.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20040311184835.GA21330@redhat.com> <1079032587.7517.1.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_767934831P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:30:09 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1014 Lines: 32 --==_Exmh_767934831P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:16:28 +0100, Christophe Saout said: > Ugh... this sounds ugly. This should be forbidden. I mean, what are > things like EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for if drivers are allowed to patch > whatever they want? If the binary blob knows enough about the innards to be able to do binary patching, it's a derived work and should be GPL. Even the NVidia driver isn't *that* evil... :) --==_Exmh_767934831P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFAUL5BcC3lWbTT17ARAjyjAKCQ2x7JSJS1Jfz1sCXjpGOABoSlhwCgu2L4 d42hDXk+AY2rqfrjSxQNJng= =Ie98 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_767934831P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/