Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen

Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-10T12:19:54Z

On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 19:44 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>
> > They always use mmap(PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC) for anycase.
> > Please google it. you can find various example.
>
> How widely is PROT_EXEC abused? Would you share some of your google results?

That's a security bug right there and should be fixed regardless of our
heuristics.