Re: [Openvortex-dev] More reverse engineering

[Eugene 'HMage' Bujak]

Jeff Muizelaar wrote:

> As I wrote the above I realized that /dev/mem could probably be used to
> do run-time patching of the driver as well...

No can do, some security-based kernel modifications like grsecurity
don't allow access to /dev/mem even for root. That'll introduce some
incompatibility issues and configuration dependencies.

If it's possible to avoid that, it's better to avoid.


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- Eugene 'HMage' Bujak.