Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265913AbUFDRcW (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:32:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265900AbUFDR2x (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:28:53 -0400 Received: from palrel13.hp.com ([156.153.255.238]:45477 "EHLO palrel13.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265896AbUFDR1c (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:27:32 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16576.45303.401479.753001@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:27:19 -0700 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: 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 Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2 In-Reply-To: <20040604164032.GA2331@infradead.org> 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> <20040604164032.GA2331@infradead.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 937 Lines: 22 >>>>> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:40:32 +0100, Christoph Hellwig said: Christoph> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 06:37:54PM +0200, Arjan van de Christoph> 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) Christoph> Maybe you should just call mprotect always to be safe? :) Christoph> OTOH I guess the world would end if a X release had less Christoph> ifdefs than the previous one.. No kidding! --david - 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/