From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
"Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:36:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040604093658.GD11034@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406031031480.14817@innerfire.net>
* Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net> wrote:
> > kernel tried to access NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: 500)
> > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f78d0f40
> > printing eip:
> > ...
>
> Just a small nitpick...
>
> Can you please drop the "- exploit attempt" from the error? Buffer
> overflows aren't always exploits.
this message will only trigger if the kernel tries to _execute_ an
non-executable kernel page - which almost never happens even considering
kernel crashes. Normal kernel oopses will still look like they used to.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-04 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-02 20:50 [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2 Ingo Molnar
2004-06-02 21:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-02 21:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-02 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-02 21:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-02 21:31 ` Doug McNaught
2004-06-08 8:46 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-06-03 1:12 ` Joel Becker
2004-06-03 1:27 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-03 6:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-03 20:37 ` jlnance
2004-06-03 7:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-03 12:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-03 15:54 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-03 23:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-06-03 23:08 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-03 23:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-06-04 0:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-06-04 9:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-04 15:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-06-04 15:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-04 15:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-04 15:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-04 15:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-04 16:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-04 16:13 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-04 16:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-04 16:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-04 17:27 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-04 17:30 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-08 9:07 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-06-08 9:14 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-08 9:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-04 16:51 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-06-08 17:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-06-04 18:11 ` Gerhard Mack
2004-06-04 18:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-04 16:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-04 17:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-04 17:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-04 17:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-03 19:24 ` Suresh Siddha
2004-06-03 20:37 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-03 22:58 ` Suresh Siddha
2004-06-03 23:06 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-04 9:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-03 12:57 ` Brian Gerst
2004-06-04 9:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-04 10:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-04 10:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-03 16:21 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-06-03 19:30 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-06-02 21:43 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-03 0:11 ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-03 0:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-03 7:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-03 8:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-03 8:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-04 0:04 ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-03 9:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-03 14:36 ` Gerhard Mack
2004-06-03 16:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-04 9:36 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-06-04 11:59 ` Stephen Wille Padnos
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2004-06-03 9:43 ` Andi Kleen
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2004-06-04 18:01 Nakajima, Jun
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