FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix

[Sean]

On 01/10/2011, at 3:12 PM, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 09/30/2011 21:10, Mike Brown wrote:
>> Eitan Adler wrote:
>>>> do I reboot for this one, or not?
>>> The kernel is changed, so yes.
>> 
>> Thanks. I had guessed a reboot was needed, but the advisory only mentioned a 
>> reboot in the context of building the kernel from sources. Hopefully, when a 
>> reboot is required, future advisories will mention it in the freebsd-update(8) 
>> instructions.
> 
> When would a reboot not be needed for a kernel change?
> 

When it's a kernel module either not loaded, not compiled in, or can be unloaded/reloaded?

Not this one though...

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