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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:16:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Evan Sarmiento <ems@open-root.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: passing function ptrs to syscalls
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010723161601.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010723225910.A19663A1DE@postfix.sekt7.org>

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On 23-Jul-01 Evan Sarmiento wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm writing a system call which requires a function pointer as an argument,
> In syscalls.master, it is specified as such:

The kernel has no business executing untrusted code from userland. Use a
kernel module to add code to the kernel.  Either that or rethink how you
are doing this.

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