public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	arjanv@redhat.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com,
	jun.nakajima@intel.com
Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86,   2.6.7-rc2-bk2
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 19:32:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040604173216.GA6646@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040604172227.GA5175@elte.hu>


this is how the maps look like on distributions that dont have the 
PT_GNU_STACK:

 08048000-0804c000 r-xp 00000000 03:01 495264     /bin/cat
 0804c000-0804d000 rwxp 00003000 03:01 495264     /bin/cat
 0804d000-0806e000 rwxp 0804d000 00:00 0
 40000000-40014000 r-xp 00000000 03:01 319552     /lib/ld-2.3.3.so
 40014000-40015000 r--p 00014000 03:01 319552     /lib/ld-2.3.3.so
 40015000-40016000 rwxp 00015000 03:01 319552     /lib/ld-2.3.3.so
 40029000-4015d000 r-xp 00000000 03:01 176042     /lib/tls/libc-2.3.3.so
 4015d000-4015f000 r--p 00134000 03:01 176042     /lib/tls/libc-2.3.3.so
 4015f000-40161000 rwxp 00136000 03:01 176042     /lib/tls/libc-2.3.3.so
 40161000-40164000 rwxp 40161000 00:00 0
 40164000-40364000 r-xp 00000000 03:01 465837     /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
 40364000-4036a000 r-xp 00902000 03:01 465837     /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
 4036a000-40397000 r-xp 0090c000 03:01 465837     /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
 40397000-40398000 r-xp 00942000 03:01 465837     /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
 bfffe000-c0000000 rwxp bfffe000 00:00 0
 ffffe000-fffff000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0

so we can turn on NX safely - all but the library/binary .data areas are
executable. (and if any code assumes executability there then it
deserves that SEGFAULT ...)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-04 17:37 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 [this message]
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
2004-06-04 11:59     ` Stephen Wille Padnos
     [not found] <22L0f-5Ci-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <22O7J-8dw-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <22Wf4-5Xv-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-06-03  9:43     ` Andi Kleen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-04 18:01 Nakajima, Jun

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20040604173216.GA6646@elte.hu \
    --to=mingo@elte.hu \
    --cc=ak@suse.de \
    --cc=akpm@osdl.org \
    --cc=arjanv@redhat.com \
    --cc=jun.nakajima@intel.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=luto@myrealbox.com \
    --cc=suresh.b.siddha@intel.com \
    --cc=torvalds@osdl.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox