[PATCH] Allow exec on 32-bit from readable, non-exec pages, with a warning.

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jul 11 10:03:24 EST 2007

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>> Yeah.  Giving the warning is a good thing though.
>
> No, it isn't; it's just noise, if we're not ever going to do anything
> to prevent the behaviour - and we can't.

The same userland code will not run correctly on PPC64 or BookE
systems.  Is that not a reason to warn?


Segher

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