Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752002Ab2JGHn7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2012 03:43:59 -0400 Received: from mail-da0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:46593 "EHLO mail-da0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751160Ab2JGHn6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2012 03:43:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <50702DF0.32447.D66E777@pageexec.freemail.hu> References: <506D8669.30501.3087FAA@pageexec.freemail.hu> <50702DF0.32447.D66E777@pageexec.freemail.hu> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 09:43:58 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Updated: [PATCH] hardening: add PROT_FINAL prot flag to mmap/mprotect From: Ard Biesheuvel To: pageexec@freemail.hu Cc: Andrew Morton , Kees Cook , Hugh Dickins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roland McGrath , spender@grsecurity.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 529 Lines: 19 2012/10/6 PaX Team : > sadly, this is not true at all, for multiple reasons: > .. snip ... > > cheers, > PaX Team > So can I summarize your position as that there is no merit at all in the ability to inhibit future permissions of existing mappings? -- Ard. -- 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/