Re: [Solved] Re: Kernel Panic Cluedo
Re: [Solved] Re: Kernel Panic Cluedo
- Subject: Re: [Solved] Re: Kernel Panic Cluedo
- From: Andrew Gallatin <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:58:23 -0500 (EST)
Michael Smith writes:
> Stephane wrote:
> >
> > It could be cool if there was a Kernel simulator with memory
> > protection...
>
> Protection of what? Read/write memory in the kernel map is freely
> writable by any code within the kernel; this is what being a
> "monolithic" kernel is all about.
Optional redzones, as well as use-after-free, use of uninitialized
data, etc, would be welcome. Solaris does this with boot-time
tunables (kmem_flags), and FreeBSD and linux do much of this
with compile time options. A redzone may have caught Stephane's
corruption as it happened..
Drew
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