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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> said:

[...]

> Actually, then you should taint kernel for starting X, too... Anything
> running with root priviledges can scribble over memory.

Come on, a wild pointer in a random program running as root won't ever
bring the kernel down, as a wild pointer in a module certainly can/will.
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