From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0FEAC5F109 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:29:31 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: From: Kumar Gala To: Scott Wood In-Reply-To: <49E78620.7070303@freescale.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Subject: Re: issues w/init Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:27:18 -0500 References: <680ABFDC-A67F-48BB-B46C-564CB5373FEB@kernel.crashing.org> <88F07543-B7F6-4F27-B5FB-4780AD069D7E@kernel.crashing.org> <49E78620.7070303@freescale.com> Cc: Linuxppc-dev Development List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Apr 16, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > Kumar Gala wrote: >> [root:~] cat /proc/1/maps >> 00100000-00103000 r-xp 00100000 00:00 0 [vdso] >> 0feab000-0ffbe000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 7127086 /lib/libc-2.2.5.so >> 0ffbe000-0ffcb000 ---p 00113000 00:0d 7127086 /lib/libc-2.2.5.so >> 0ffcb000-0ffeb000 rw-p 00110000 00:0d 7127086 /lib/libc-2.2.5.so > > IIRC, this libc is old enough to execute out of non-exec memory in > some cases. Yeah, I'm going to that realization. The question is are we ok with breaking older versions of libc like this. - k