Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262197AbVDMF3F (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:29:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262199AbVDMF3F (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:29:05 -0400 Received: from h80ad24dc.async.vt.edu ([128.173.36.220]:28679 "EHLO h80ad24dc.async.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262197AbVDMF26 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:28:58 -0400 Message-Id: <200504130528.j3D5Sj2u015960@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: John M Collins Cc: Chris Wright , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:32:59 BST." <1113341579.3105.63.camel@caveman.xisl.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1113298455.16274.72.camel@caveman.xisl.com> <425BBDF9.9020903@ev-en.org> <1113318034.3105.46.camel@caveman.xisl.com> <20050412210857.GT11199@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <1113341579.3105.63.camel@caveman.xisl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1113370124_3658P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:28:44 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1503 Lines: 41 --==_Exmh_1113370124_3658P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:32:59 BST, John M Collins said: > I wish some kind soul would speak nicely to Nvidia and get them to see > reason on the point but I suspect I'm not the first person to wish that. NVidia is aware, and they're doing the best they can under the circumstances (no, they can't opensource it all, there's other people's intellectual property in there that they licensed...) > (Or is there a sneaky way of patching the modules so they'll work in > another kernel without tainting it?). Patching it so it won't taint is a one-line patch. However, it's so morally bankrupt that I'm not giving any more hints. Much trickier is doing it so the same module will insmod into multiple kernels without screwing the pooch. If you look around in nv-linux.h and nv.c, there's a number of checks of KERNEL_VERSION, and they're all there for a reason. --==_Exmh_1113370124_3658P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFCXK4McC3lWbTT17ARAuNlAKCdXE3WCG+rrHSjLLNjbHIJv7q6NgCgpIy5 WBaoLUuWFxQkQnTdf3eHKfE= =imXL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1113370124_3658P-- - 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/