On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 11:45 -0400, Karl Bellve wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > >NVidia binary bugs should be reported to Nvidia. nly they have the needed > >souce code. > > > > > > > Which I did, but I thought it was unusual that the kernel can be brought > down by a misbehaving module but I know nothing of kernel design either. kernel modules are linked into the kernel at runtime and are fully fledged members of the running kernel. They thus can do all the things the "real" kernel can, including all damage and crashing, and all security mistakes. (eg a kernel module can make any user root if it wants to. some binary modules are rumored to have backdoors for that ;)
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