From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to make stack executable on demand?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 21:57:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040416205737.GD25240@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040416204651.GA24194@lucon.org>
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 01:46:51PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:02:58PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > But it will either fail if
> > > kernel is set with non-executable stack,
> >
> > eh no. mprotect with prot_exec is still supposed to work. The stacks
> > still have MAY_EXEC attribute, just not the actual EXEC attribute
>
> Ok. It looks like a bug in Red Hat EL 3 kernel. In fs/exec.c, there
That version of exec-shield is quite dated. For the latest version,
look on http://people.redhat.com/mingo, or the Fedora kernels.
I'm pretty sure that Exec-shield isn't even enabled in the EL kernels
at this time, so it's quite out of date in respect to the others.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-16 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-16 17:09 How to make stack executable on demand? H. J. Lu
2004-04-16 18:07 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-04-16 19:40 ` H. J. Lu
2004-04-19 14:39 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-16 20:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-04-16 20:46 ` H. J. Lu
2004-04-16 20:57 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-04-17 7:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-04-19 0:08 ` Jamie Lokier
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