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

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jul 18 02:37:15 EST 2007


>>> Way back when, I distinctly recall aborting my plans to implement
>>> per-page exec on 40x, precisely because of executables like this.
>>
>> I noticed some comments to that effect in the BookE code,
>> yes.  It seems userland has been fixed enough that you
>> could think about enabling it again FWIW.
>
> Did I miss the posting of the patch with the fix?

glibc-2.2 seems to be the last "bad" one.  We are at
glibc-2.6 or so nowadays...


Segher




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