Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 May 2006 21:34:31 -0400 | From | John Richard Moser <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6.16.16 Parameter-controlled mmap/stack randomization |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 12:31 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote: >> It is still possible that ARCH_STACK_RANDOM_BITS_DEFAULT breaks things. >> The current kernel default broke emacs at first I heard; > > hearsay.. where did you hear this and what exact randomization was this? >
Sorry, I googled it, you were talking about brk() randomization (which I STILL want to see! :D)
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/28/29
> >> I believe we >> started with 64KiB of stack randomization and then upped it to 8MiB when >> emacs was fixed. > > this is new information to me, I find this really really hard to believe > as true but maybe you have information I don't have...
See this is why I said "I believe..." :)
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