Re: [announce] [patch] NX (No eXecute) support for x86, 2.6.7-rc2-bk2

[Andi Kleen]

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.

-andi
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