Re: Making /proc/kallsyms readable only by root

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On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 03:47, julie Sullivan <kernelmail.jms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Loosely related to the discussion about /dev/mem and system security
> compromisation of about a week ago on kernel-newbies, there was this
> discussion today on lkml for the curious:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/4/94

Oh wait, maybe this patch mean, by restricting it to be readable only
by root, we reduce attack vector, right? Thus, one can't easily
predicts address symbols, right?

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