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    SubjectRe: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2
    On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 06:13:04PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
    > > So instead of having complex things to try to turn NX on for suid, we
    > > should aim to turn ot on as widely as possible, _even_if_ that means that
    > > people who upgrade hardware might have to do some trivial MIS stuff.
    >
    > That is what is currently done on x86-64 in the major distributions
    > (SUSE,Red Hat) at least.

    yep.

    > Of course that is only for the stack. Making the heap non executable
    > is another can of worms. I don't know if Fedora does that
    > too, SUSE and mainline x86-64 doesn't.

    Fedora makes the heap non executable too; it only broke X which has it's own
    shared library loader (which btw had all the right mprotects in place, just
    ifdef'd for freebsd, ia64 and a few other architectures that default to
    non-executable heap, so we just added x86(-64) to that)

    Greetings,
    Arjan van de Ven
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