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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	Huaitong Han <huaitong.han@intel.com>,
	Ismael Ripoll Ripoll <iripoll@upv.es>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Disabling read-implies-exec when the stack is executable
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 15:40:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160511224058.GL11177@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jJt1YPvR903ivFCmnwu1b++mEZhbfm8k8kLwPNwCqpnbQ@mail.gmail.com>

> However, I would tend to agree: RIE should only be needed on 32-bit
> since 64-bit started its life knowing about no-exec permissions.

NX was not in the original AMD K8 chips.  Was only added some time later.

> set_personality_64bit()'s (which is confusingly just an initializer
> and not called during the personality() syscall) comment about this
> makes no sense to me:
> 
>         /* TBD: overwrites user setup. Should have two bits.
>            But 64bit processes have always behaved this way,
>            so it's not too bad. The main problem is just that
>            32bit childs are affected again. */
>         current->personality &= ~READ_IMPLIES_EXEC;

What does not make sense?

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-11 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-11 10:45 [PATCH] x86_64: Disabling read-implies-exec when the stack is executable Hector Marco-Gisbert
2016-05-11 20:49 ` Kees Cook
2016-05-11 22:40   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2016-05-12  2:11     ` Kees Cook
2016-05-16 10:58   ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-18  7:45 ` Kees Cook
2019-04-18  8:17   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-18 14:11     ` Kees Cook
2019-04-18 14:14     ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-18 14:29       ` Kees Cook

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