Null pointers, one month later
Null pointers, one month later
Posted Aug 18, 2009 17:33 UTC (Tue) by cruff (subscriber, #7201)Parent article: Null pointers, one month later
Why don't they just force the use of the no-execute page table (on processors that support it) for all kernel mappings of user space? Then there would be no way cause the execution of user code even if there are additional missing NULL pointer checks?
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