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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	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 20:12:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040604181241.GB407@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406041408220.31276@innerfire.net>

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On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 02:11:00PM -0400, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > I know that in a FC1 full install there are less than 5 binaries that don't
> > run with NX. (one uses nested functions in C and passes function pointers to
> > the inner function around which causes gcc to emit a stack trampoline, and
> > gcc then marks the binary as non-NX, the others have asm in them that we
> > didn't fix in time to be properly marked).
> 
> Can you tell if GCC uses trampolines for all use of function pointers or
> just ones that use nested functions ?

just for nested functions

> 
> Also, what is the fastest way to check if GCC is marking non-NX?

readelf -l <binary>

should give output with a STACK line, if that says "RW" then it's NX ok, if
it says "RWX" then it's non-NX


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-04 18:13 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 [this message]
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
2004-06-04 11:59     ` Stephen Wille Padnos
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     [not found]   ` <22Wf4-5Xv-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-06-03  9:43     ` Andi Kleen
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2004-06-04 18:01 Nakajima, Jun

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