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SubjectRe: [PATCH] PPC64 Implement non-executable stacks
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
>
> This patch, by Jake Moilanen with some further hacking from me, adds a
> real execute permission bit to the linux PTEs on PPC64, and connects
> that into the kernel infrastructure for implementing non-executable
> stacks and heaps. This means that on any PPC64 cpu since the POWER4
> (i.e. POWER4, PPC970, PPC970FX, POWER4+, POWER5) you will get a
> segfault if you try to execute instructions from a region that doesn't
> have PROT_EXEC permission. The patch also marks the pages of the
> linear mapping that aren't part of the kernel text as non-executable.
>
> Andrew and Linus, could you try this on your G5s?

Seems to work OK under ydl 4.0. OpenOffice hung once starting up, but that
wasn't repeatable.

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