Re: noexec=on doesn't work

[Eric Piel]

12/09/2006 09:03 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote/a Ãcrit:
> 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.

Somehow there is a problem: a user can explicitly put "noexec=on" and it 
will be silently ignored if the kernel doesn't have PAE support. I guess 
that currently no message is written because "noexec=on" is the 
_default_. Still, it would be fair to the user who added "noexec=on" on 
its command line that if it is not respected, either because the 
hardware doesn't support it or because the kernel doesn't support it, we 
display a warning saying it's hopeless.

I'll send a patch if it seems meaningful to you,
c u
Eric



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