Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264419AbUFCW7g (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:59:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264518AbUFCW7f (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:59:35 -0400 Received: from fmr12.intel.com ([134.134.136.15]:47542 "EHLO orsfmr001.jf.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264419AbUFCW7c (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:59:32 -0400 From: Suresh Siddha To: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2 Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 15:58:27 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , "Nakajima, Jun" References: <20040602205025.GA21555@elte.hu> <200406031224.13319.suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> <20040603203709.GB868@wotan.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20040603203709.GB868@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406031558.27495.suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Jun 2004 22:58:24.0530 (UTC) FILETIME=[464D4720:01C449BE] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 554 Lines: 16 On Thursday 03 June 2004 13:37, Andi Kleen wrote: > > What do you mean by "in the future"? on x86, with the current no execute > > patch, malloc() will be non-exec > > On x86-64 the heap is executable right now at least. > oh! I see. Looks like only Ingo's exec-shield patch is doing that. thanks, suresh - 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/