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Re: [PATCH] Set __libc_stack_end earlier on all arches,...


>>>>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:36:22 +0200, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> said:

  Jakub> The only special arches here are ia64 and ppc64, as there
  Jakub> trampolines don't actually need executable stack. Because of
  Jakub> this I chose not to add .note.GNU-stack/PT_GNU_STACK marking
  Jakub> for these two arches.  Unfortunately, on both these arches
  Jakub> kernel defaults to executable stack as I found out today and
  Jakub> thus there can be programs which rely on this and so for
  Jakub> binary compatibility need to be assumed as needing executable
  Jakub> stack too.

Why do you say this?

	$ uname -a
	Linux wailua.hpl.hp.com 2.6.0-test5 #30 Tue Sep 16 11:28:09 PDT 2003 ia64 GNU/Linux
	$ cat /proc/self/maps |grep 60000fff7
	60000fff7fffc000-60000fff80000000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0

We stopped turning on execute permission some time again (2.4.1x).
For ia64 Linux, there is an ELF OS flag which can be set to force
executable data/stack (the user-tool to do this is called "chatr").

	--david


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