Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754965Ab0KQFmV (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:42:21 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:48131 "EHLO mail-ew0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753052Ab0KQFmT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:42:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20101116104600.GA24015@suse.de> From: Kyle Moffett Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:41:58 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: make /proc/kallsyms mode 400 to reduce ease of attacking To: Marcus Meissner Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@elte.hu, w@1wt.eu, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 18 Whoops... I apparently can't count to 3... (at least not correctly anyways) :-D. On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 00:40, Kyle Moffett wrote: >  (1) For 99%+ of all the computers out there you can get a 90%+ [...] >  (2) Most of the arguments about introducing "uncertainty" into the [...] >  (2) By just flat out changing the permissions on this file you are [...] >  (3) If you are really interested in locking down a system to this Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- 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/