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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Non-Exec stack patches
Date: 24 Mar 2004 18:49:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73wu5at9su.fsf@brahms.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040324172454.GP31589@devserv.devel.redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>

Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> Nope.  Think about multithreaded apps.  Furthermore, getting the exact
> extents of the particular stack is difficult to find for applications,
> but e.g. the threading library has to know such things.

It's actually not that difficult. You just have to read /proc/self/maps
and check for the mapping of your current stack pointer.
For the main stack GROWSDOWN will inherit the x or nx on growing
down.

And cache a flag about this in a TLS variable.

-Andi

       reply	other threads:[~2004-03-24 17:49 UTC|newest]

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     [not found]                   ` <20040324172454.GP31589@devserv.devel.redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2004-03-24 17:49                     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-03-24 17:54                       ` Non-Exec stack patches Jakub Jelinek
2004-04-14 19:14 Siddha, Suresh B
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-14  8:45 Siddha, Suresh B
2004-04-14  9:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-14  7:28 Siddha, Suresh B
2004-04-14  8:23 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-14  9:47 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-14 18:30   ` Kurt Garloff
2004-04-14 20:54     ` Jeff Dike
     [not found] <1D3lO-3dh-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1D3YZ-3Gl-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-03-24  6:01   ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-24 10:23     ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-24 11:27       ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-24 22:03         ` Kurt Garloff
2004-03-23 23:12 Kurt Garloff
2004-03-23 23:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-23 23:49 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-24  0:21   ` Kurt Garloff
2004-03-24  0:38     ` David Mosberger
2004-03-24  1:20       ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-24  1:41         ` David Mosberger
2004-03-24  2:01           ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-24  7:09             ` David Mosberger
2004-03-24  7:00           ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-24  7:16             ` David Mosberger
2004-03-24  7:28               ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-24  7:45                 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-24 16:29                   ` John Reiser
2004-03-24 17:12                     ` David Mosberger
2004-03-24 17:24                       ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-24 18:01                         ` David Mosberger
2004-03-24 19:02                       ` John Reiser
2004-03-24 19:18                         ` David Mosberger
2004-03-24  0:41     ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-24  0:41       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-24 10:53       ` Kurt Garloff

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