Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263180AbTEBU54 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 16:57:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263182AbTEBU54 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 16:57:56 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:2576 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263180AbTEBU5y (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 16:57:54 -0400 Message-ID: <3EB2DEA2.6070002@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 14:09:54 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Announcement] "Exec Shield", new Linux security feature References: <200305021829.h42ITclA000178@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <3EB2DB8C.70600@zytor.com> <20030502210758.GB21239@oldwotan.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20030502210758.GB21239@oldwotan.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 458 Lines: 17 Andi Kleen wrote: >> >>Why is that? And, in particular, why is it "too late to turn it back > > mprotect() didn't (and probably still does not) work when you change > PROT_EXEC. > Kernel bug or CPU bug? -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/