[PATCH] no-execute -- please test

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Mon Aug 14 14:02:36 EST 2006


Albert Cahalan writes:

> If you want heap protection, change VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS32
> in include/asm-powerpc/page.h to be like VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS.
> I'd love to hear if anybody can get X to start with this change.

In general I would expect dynamically-linked programs to fail unless
you compile everything with gcc -msecure-plt.

Paul.



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