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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 13:48:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050206124832.GE30109@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1107693622.22680.86.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 13:33 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Your main objection is that *incorrect* programs that assume they can
> > > execute malloc() code without PROT_EXEC protection. For legacy binaries
> > > keeping this behavior makes sense, no objection from me.
> > > 
> > > For newly compiled programs this is just wrong and incorrect.
> > 
> > That's not true as the grub/mono/... experience shows. 
> 
> both those apps are buggy and incorrect though and should be fixed.

They worked fine forever - and suddenly you define them as buggy.
This might be, but it's still quite bad to change the definition
of what is buggy and what is not so suddenly in a "mostly stable"
release series. And who tells the users what is considered buggy
this week?

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-06 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-06 11:36 [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11 Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 11:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 12:02   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 12:25     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 12:36     ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 12:45     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 12:50       ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 12:59         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 13:01           ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 13:04             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 13:09               ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 13:31                 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 13:43                   ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 13:06             ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-06 13:11               ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 13:32                 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 13:46                   ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 14:08                     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 14:22                       ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-06 14:29                       ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 17:08                         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-06 17:13                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 17:31                             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-06 17:39                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 18:04                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-06 18:08                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 17:56                           ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 12:33   ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 12:40     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 12:48       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-02-06 15:54         ` Andreas Schwab
2005-02-06 17:05     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-06 17:58       ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-06 12:11 ` Paweł Sikora
     [not found] ` <200502061303.12377.pluto@pld-linux.org>
     [not found]   ` <20050206124701.GD30109@wotan.suse.de>
2005-02-06 18:07     ` Paweł Sikora
2005-02-06 18:38       ` Andi Kleen

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