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		saagarjha on Oct 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenBSD: Removing syscall(2) from libc and kernel Exploits are more than happy to drop to inline assembly.

pizlonator on Oct 28, 2023 [–]

Theo already prevented you from making the syscall by using the trap instruction directly because of in kernel checking that you got to the kernel via the right point in libc.

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