Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261686AbTEDUpS (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2003 16:45:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261688AbTEDUpS (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2003 16:45:18 -0400 Received: from daimi.au.dk ([130.225.16.1]:3458 "EHLO daimi.au.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261686AbTEDUpR (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2003 16:45:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3EB57EC5.7BC7E0F@daimi.au.dk> Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 22:57:41 +0200 From: Kasper Dupont Organization: daimi.au.dk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-19.7.xsmp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Announcement] "Exec Shield", new Linux security feature References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 784 Lines: 19 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > the first 1MB of the ASCII-armor is left unused to provide NULL pointer > dereference protection and leave space for 16-bit emulation mappings used > by XFree86 and others. But in some cases you need 1MB+64KB. I think you should change the start address from 0x00101000 to 0x00111000 so it does not overlap the address space addressable from virtual 86 mode. -- Kasper Dupont -- der bruger for meget tid p? usenet. For sending spam use mailto:aaarep@daimi.au.dk for(_=52;_;(_%5)||(_/=5),(_%5)&&(_-=2))putchar(_); - 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/