From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264012AbUGAF0p (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 01:26:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263980AbUGAF0p (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 01:26:45 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:46047 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263972AbUGAF0m (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 01:26:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:25:47 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Jamie Lokier Cc: jakub@redhat.com, wesolows@foobazco.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, ultralinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A question about PROT_NONE on Sparc and Sparc64 Message-Id: <20040630222547.65d793da.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040630225220.GA32560@mail.shareable.org> References: <20040630030503.GA25149@mail.shareable.org> <20040630082804.GS21264@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20040630135419.25b843b8.davem@redhat.com> <20040630225220.GA32560@mail.shareable.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:52:20 +0100 Jamie Lokier wrote: > The PaX security patch already implements R!X pages on Sparc64, so you > could just cut out that part of the patch. Just pick out the changes > to arch/sparc64/* and include/asm-sparc64/*: > > http://pax.grsecurity.net/pax-linux-2.6.7-200406252135.patch > > It appears to use exactly the technique Jakub describes, and has been tested. Great, I'm integrating something along these lines right now. Do you have any idea who authored the sparc64 bits so I can give them credit?