Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261273AbVDMJoA (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 05:44:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261282AbVDMJn7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 05:43:59 -0400 Received: from hermine.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:30481 "HELO hermine.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261273AbVDMJni (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 05:43:38 -0400 Message-ID: <425CEAC2.1050306@aitel.hist.no> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:47:46 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John M Collins CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels 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> In-Reply-To: <1113341579.3105.63.camel@caveman.xisl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2012 Lines: 52 John M Collins wrote: >On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 14:08 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > >>* John M Collins (jmc@xisl.com) wrote: >> >> >>>Thanks to everyone for the pointers on this one I've rebuilt the kernels >>>and we'll see what happens. >>> >>> >>BTW, I'd recommend updating to 2.6.11.7 so that you're protected from >>another local root exploit. >> >> > >I'll do that - trouble is round where I am they dish out Nvidia cards >like confetti, I've got them in the machine I use most and another 2 and >you have to do all that gyrating with running the script to FTP down and >build the secret module before you can run X. This is a big disincentive >when it comes to installing new kernels. > >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. > > You're not. Complain to nvidia - using both email and snailmail. If everybody with such problems did that, chances are they see the light someday. Oh, and complain to the guy handing out nvidia cards like confetti, state your preference for some other card. Perhaps that is easier to achieve. >(Or is there a sneaky way of patching the modules so they'll work in >another kernel without tainting it?). > > Whats wrong with tainting? It is just a message, telling you that the kernel is unsupported. In this case because you're running a closed-source module. The tainting message itself does not do anything bad. There is a way - which is to write an open nvidia driver. To do that, you'll need to get the specs out of nvidia or figure it out by reverse-engineering some other nvidia driver. Either approach is hard, so people generally find it cheaper to just buy a supported card. Helge Hafting - 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/