Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262969AbUCXCOK (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:14:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262971AbUCXCOK (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:14:10 -0500 Received: from cpe-24-221-190-179.ca.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.190.179]:57528 "EHLO myware.akkadia.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262969AbUCXCOI (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:14:08 -0500 Message-ID: <4060EBEA.7080807@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:01:14 -0800 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040322 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: davidm@hpl.hp.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Non-Exec stack patches References: <20040323231256.GP4677@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20040323154937.1f0dc500.akpm@osdl.org> <20040324002149.GT4677@tpkurt.garloff.de> <16480.55450.730214.175997@napali.hpl.hp.com> <4060E24C.9000507@redhat.com> <16480.59229.808025.231875@napali.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <16480.59229.808025.231875@napali.hpl.hp.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 650 Lines: 16 David Mosberger wrote: > What stack protections other than RW- and RWX are useful? It's not about "what protections". The three currently recognized states are PT_GNU_STACK not present, rwx, rw-. Ingo's code documents this. For those who need more, I'll have a paper coming up for a conference in Toronto in April. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ - 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/