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Tightening symbol exports

Posted Nov 30, 2007 8:17 UTC (Fri) by sgros (subscriber, #36440)
In reply to: Tightening symbol exports by simlo
Parent article: Tightening symbol exports

What about:

4) Security. Not exporting symbols that are not needed by drivers makes writing rootkits and a
like a lot harder?

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Posted Nov 30, 2007 23:01 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

But it doesn't. If something hostile is running as root you're dead. If it 
can get access to the symbol table from somewhere, it *really* doesn't 
matter if the symbol is exported or not.