Re: noexec=on doesn't work

From: Kyle McMartin
Date: Sat Dec 09 2006 - 15:03:51 EST


On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 02:34:47PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> I have filed this as a distro bug with Ubuntu; it may be their issue, I
> haven't dug deep enough to find out. I am posting this here to disperse
> the information breadth-first instead of depth-first, which will shorten
> the bug's life cycle if it turns out to be an upstream bug.
>

NX requires the 64-bit page table entries (ie, PAE) which requires
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G.

Why are you posting to linux-kernel@ without even checking the upstream
kernel, anyway?

plonk.

Kyle M.
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