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Authored by stevek on Apr 12 2023, 5:30 PM.
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Check for PRIV_KDB_SET_BACKEND before allowing a thread to change
the KDB backend.

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sys/sys/priv.h
526

I know this is updated via D39537 so ignoring

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 12 2023, 5:45 PM
sys/sys/priv.h
519

I might expand this to "Kernel debugger privileges" (and in particular I might expect privileges related to e.g. ddb(4) to also land in here).

526

The tree should always be in a usable state so this should really update here and again in D39537

sys/sys/priv.h
519

Sure, makes sense. Maybe PRIV_DBG_SET_BACKEND for the name instead?

526

Yes, this one will come first. I have both commits in separate feature branches in my git tree.

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