Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265859AbUFDQmw (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 12:42:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265847AbUFDQmw (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 12:42:52 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:19623 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265859AbUFDQkl (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 12:40:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:40:32 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , luto@myrealbox.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, jun.nakajima@intel.com Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2 Message-ID: <20040604164032.GA2331@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Arjan van de Ven , Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , luto@myrealbox.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, jun.nakajima@intel.com References: <20040603230834.GF868@wotan.suse.de> <20040604092552.GA11034@elte.hu> <200406040826.15427.luto@myrealbox.com> <20040604154142.GF16897@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20040604155138.GG16897@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20040604181304.325000cb.ak@suse.de> <20040604163753.GN16897@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040604163753.GN16897@devserv.devel.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 747 Lines: 13 On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 06:37:54PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Fedora makes the heap non executable too; it only broke X which has it's own > shared library loader (which btw had all the right mprotects in place, just > ifdef'd for freebsd, ia64 and a few other architectures that default to > non-executable heap, so we just added x86(-64) to that) Maybe you should just call mprotect always to be safe? :) OTOH I guess the world would end if a X release had less ifdefs than the previous one.. - 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/