Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261231AbVBGSf7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:35:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261236AbVBGSf6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:35:58 -0500 Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.202.55]:50347 "EHLO sccrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261231AbVBGSfc (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:35:32 -0500 Message-ID: <4207B4F5.4050401@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:35:33 -0500 From: John Richard Moser User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050111) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Peter Busser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Sabotaged PaXtest References: <200501311015.20964.arjan@infradead.org> <200501311357.59630.busser@m-privacy.de> <1107189699.4221.124.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1107189699.4221.124.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1520 Lines: 52 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 13:57 +0100, Peter Busser wrote: > >>Hi! [...] > the paxtest 0.9.6 that John Moser mailed to this list had this gem in > it: > @@ -39,8 +42,6 @@ > */ > int paxtest_mode = 1; > > + /* Dummy nested function */ > + void dummy(void) {} > > mode = getenv( "PAXTEST_MODE" ); > if( mode == NULL ) { > > > which is clearly there with the only possible function of sabotaging the > automatic PT_GNU_STACK setting by the toolchain (which btw is not fedora > specific but happens by all new enough (3.3 or later) gcc compilers on > all distros) since that requires an executable stack. I'll say this AGAIN: I execstack -c'd the directory after the first borked up test and stuff randomly failed. After upgrading FC3's kernel though I got predictable results. - -- All content of all messages exchanged herein are left in the Public Domain, unless otherwise explicitly stated. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCB7T0hDd4aOud5P8RAk7XAJ4oYgr2ySTdg+y80f6pBasO+x8ttACfdjYx ++dQRSTGzTGP/Vsp2KZ6YHU= =jp9U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/