Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jun 2004 01:06:10 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2 |
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On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:58:27PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > On Thursday 03 June 2004 13:37, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > What do you mean by "in the future"? on x86, with the current no execute > > > patch, malloc() will be non-exec > > > > On x86-64 the heap is executable right now at least. > > > > oh! I see. Looks like only Ingo's exec-shield patch is doing that.
Maybe adding a new ELF header flag for that would be a good idea too. Just not sure if gcc should set it by default or not.
But I fear chaging it for x86-64 generically could break programs again.
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