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Quote: Nooks wraps a device driver in a lightweight protection domain; copies kernel objects and checks parameters

QuoteRef: taneAS5_2006 , p. 45



Topic:
operating system security
Topic:
device driver
Topic:
operating system kernel

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Nooks [Swift et al, ACM Trans. Computer Systems, 23:77-110, 2005] protects the kernel from buggy device … [in] a lightweight protection domain … When a driver runs, all pages outside it … When the kernel … calls a driver function or [vice-versa], … a wrapper … checks the parameters for validity and manages the … [p. 46] … When a driver tries to modify a kernel … Upon successful completion of the request, the isolation …   Google-1   Google-2

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