Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265741AbUFDL7K (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:59:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265749AbUFDL7K (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:59:10 -0400 Received: from mailgate2.sover.net ([209.198.87.64]:23745 "EHLO mx2.sover.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265741AbUFDL66 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:58:58 -0400 Message-ID: <40C06431.8090603@sover.net> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 07:59:45 -0400 From: Stephen Wille Padnos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Gerhard Mack , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , "Siddha, Suresh B" , "Nakajima, Jun" Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2 References: <20040602205025.GA21555@elte.hu> <20040604093658.GD11034@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20040604093658.GD11034@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1070 Lines: 35 Ingo Molnar wrote: >* Gerhard Mack wrote: > >>> kernel tried to access NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: 500) >>> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f78d0f40 >>> printing eip: >>> ... >>> >>> >>Just a small nitpick... >> >>Can you please drop the "- exploit attempt" from the error? Buffer >>overflows aren't always exploits. >> >> > >this message will only trigger if the kernel tries to _execute_ an >non-executable kernel page - which almost never happens even considering >kernel crashes. Normal kernel oopses will still look like they used to. > > Perhaps the message should read like so: kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: 500) Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f78d0f40 printing eip: - Steve - 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/