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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:58:22 -0400
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        chris@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>, Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 13476 for review 
Message-ID:  <200206271658.g5RGwNP39104@green.bikeshed.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:14:58 CDT." <20020627091458.C412@holly.calldei.com> 

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Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, June 27, 2002, Brian Feldman wrote:
> > 	Don't crash if an ELF module is b0rked and has a 0 where it
> > 	shouldn't.  Maybe I should just let it crash?
> 
>    More sanity/validity checks for KLD files is probably for the
> best.  I can't see how you could go wrong in preventing an
> unnecessary crash, but I think printing a log message like
> "filename: Invalid ELF header" or the like would be a good idea
> as well.

Well, the lingering thought in my mind against it is that if the KLD file is 
really corrupt it could just as easily have a data segment that will crash 
you when it starts executing.  I'm not sure what the right trade-off here is.

-- 
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