issues w/init

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Apr 17 05:27:18 EST 2009


On Apr 16, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Scott Wood wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> [root:~] cat /proc/1/maps
>> 00100000-00103000 r-xp 00100000 00:00 0          [vdso]
>> 0feab000-0ffbe000 r-xp 00000000 00:0d 7127086    /lib/libc-2.2.5.so
>> 0ffbe000-0ffcb000 ---p 00113000 00:0d 7127086    /lib/libc-2.2.5.so
>> 0ffcb000-0ffeb000 rw-p 00110000 00:0d 7127086    /lib/libc-2.2.5.so
>
> IIRC, this libc is old enough to execute out of non-exec memory in  
> some cases.

Yeah, I'm going to that realization.  The question is are we ok with  
breaking older versions of libc like this.

- k



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