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CACM
1999
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The Linux Edge
uire an abstraction layer, without paying the performance penalty paid by microkernels. By allowing for kernel modules, hardware-specific code can often be confined to a module, ke...
Linus Torvalds
ACSAC
2004
IEEE
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Detecting Exploit Code Execution in Loadable Kernel Modules
In current extensible monolithic operating systems, loadable kernel modules (LKM) have unrestricted access to all portions of kernel memory and I/O space. As a result, kernel-modu...
Haizhi Xu, Wenliang Du, Steve J. Chapin