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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for 2.6.18-rc2] [2/8] i386/x86-64: Don't randomize stack top when no randomization personality is set
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:27:12 +0200
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> yeah. There's one security issue: the 'dont randomize' flag must be
> cleared when we cross a protection domain. When for example suid-ing in
> exec().

Good point.

-Andi