Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264502AbUFCWsJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:48:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264538AbUFCWsJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:48:09 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:32938 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264502AbUFCWsF (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:48:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:30:16 +0200 From: Kurt Garloff To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux kernel list Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2 Message-ID: <20040603193016.GC4879@tpkurt.garloff.de> Mail-Followup-To: Kurt Garloff , Linus Torvalds , Linux kernel list References: <20040602205025.GA21555@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bjuZg6miEcdLYP6q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.5-14-KG i686 X-PGP-Info: on http://www.garloff.de/kurt/mykeys.pgp X-PGP-Key: 1024D/1C98774E, 1024R/CEFC9215 Organization: SUSE/Novell User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1456 Lines: 45 --bjuZg6miEcdLYP6q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Linus, On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:13:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Just out of interest - how many legacy apps are broken by this? I assume= =20 > it's a non-zero number, but wouldn't mind to be happily surprised. >=20 > And do we have some way of on a per-process basis say "avoid NX because > this old version of Oracle/flash/whatever-binary-thing doesn't run with > it"? That's why the PT_GNU_STACK section is searched for ;-) If it's not found, we assume a legacy app and go with the arch default. I tested this -- on x86-64. Regards, --=20 Kurt Garloff [Koeln, DE] Physics:Plasma modeling [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SUSE Labs (Head) [SUSE Nuernberg, DE] --bjuZg6miEcdLYP6q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAv3xIxmLh6hyYd04RAgcYAJ4lNvofugo3B40zKYcUCr8oJV0fZgCeIyrf i4fGakyArIXcdmiM96D1Mo4= =u5kU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bjuZg6miEcdLYP6q-- - 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/