Subject: compartmentalization of kernel memory
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Kamal R Prasad <kamalrpr@in.ibm.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/04/2003 04:57:50
Hello,
 if a null pointer access takes place (inside the kernel), the entire
kernel memory is suspect.
is it possible to compartmentalize kernel memory in any way so that memory
corruption if it does result in an exception is guaranteed to leave
some/all other memory segments intact? (we will know that memory corruption
has taken place only when we get an exception).
thanks
-kamal