On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 08:27:08AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > It's nice to check for consistency though, so we're adding that. Profile > > loading is a trusted operation, at least so far, and so security wise we > > don't actually have to care --- if loading an invalid profile can bring > > down > > the system, then that's no worse than an arbitrary module that crashes the > > machine. Not sure if there will ever be user loadable profiles; at least at > > that point we had to care. > > A security system that allows to crash the kernel is a little weird > though. It would be better to check. Not that a recursion check > is particularly expensive. > Indeed. It will be fixed in the next rev.
thanks john
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